Category: Art Celebration

Art Celebration 2025 – BIG THANKYOU

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🌼 Wildflower Trail Art Celebration 2025 – Open to All in Adur & Worthing! 🐝

Calling all nature lovers, artists, photographers, and curious creatives—this celebration is for YOU!
Whether you’re a child discovering daisies, a teen with a camera, a seasoned artist, or someone who simply adores wildflowers… we invited everyone in Adur and Worthing to share their love of nature through art and photography. And wow—what a response! 🌸📸

🎨 Entrants

A heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to the Wildflower Trail Art Celebration 2024/2025. With our joyful theme of Wildflowers and Pollinators, your entries brought colour, life, and inspiration to our communities. From delicate sketches to bold photos, each piece reminded us how vital and beautiful our wild spaces—and their buzzing companions—truly are.

🏛️ Exhibition Venues 2025

We’re deeply grateful to the wonderful venues that hosted the displays across Adur and Worthing this summer. Your support helped bring these artworks into the heart of our towns. We hope you’ll join us again in 2026 to showcase the next wave of creativity!

Worthing Exhibitors

     

Colonnade House 22nd April (Tues) – 26th April (Sat)
Worthing Library 29th April (Tues) – 9th May (Fri)
Henry House 9th May (Fri) – 23rd May (Fri)
Heene Community Centre 27th May (Tues) – 31st May (Sat)

Fishersgate Exhibitors

Eastbrook Manor Community Centre 2nd June (Mon) – 9th June (Mon)

Southdown Leisure Exhibition Sites

Southwick Leisure Centre 9th June (Mon) – 16th June (Mon)
Lancing Manor Leisure centre 16th Jun (Mon) – 23rd Jun (Mon)
Worthing Leisure Centre 23 Jun (Mon) 30th Jun (Mon)
Worthing Leisure Field Place 30th Jun (Mon) 7th Jul (Mon)

Southwick Exhibitors

Southwick Community centre 21st Jul (Mon) – 28th Jul (Mon)
Southwick Library 28th Jul (Mon) – 4th Aug (Mon)

Lancing Exhibitors


Lancing Library 4th Aug (Mon) 11th Aug (Mon)
Lancing Parish Hall 11th August (Mon) – 21st Aug (Mon)

Shoreham Exhibitors
Church of the Good Shepherd, Shoreham Beach 1st Sept (Mon) –  8th Sept (Mon)
The Ropetackle Arts Centre 8th Sept (Mon) – 15th Sept (Mon)
St Mary de Haura Church 15th Sept (Mon) – 22nd Sept (Mon)
Shoreham Library 22nd Sept (Mon) – 27th Sept (Sat)

🌿 Stay tuned for updates, and keep celebrating the wild beauty around us.
This trail is yours—let’s keep it blooming! 🌸

The Wildflower Trail began as a project by Green Tides and is now proudly led by We Are Pollinator Pioneers CIC — a unique environmental community group dedicated to preserving local ecosystems, connecting communities with nature, providing environmental education, and helping to conserve our region’s vital pollinator populations. Through collaboration, creativity, and care, we support thriving wildflower spaces that benefit both people and wildlife.

To learn more about our work and how you can get involved, visit 👉 www.pollinatorpioneers.org.uk

 

The Wildflower Trail – Art Celebration May 2025

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OPEN TO EVERYONE LIVING IN ADUR AND WORTHING

Everyone who lived in Adur and Worthing was welcome to contribute art or photos that celebrate wildflowers and nature – children and young people, adults, professional artists or enthusiastic amateurs, submitted their wonderful entries, and here they are!

ENTRANTS 

A massive Thank You! for your interest in the Wildflower Trail Art Celebration 2024/2025, with our theme of Wildflowers and Pollinators. We aimed to really celebrate the diversity and joy that wildflowers can bring to our communities, as well as our insect friends, and the following entries fulfilled our aim and more!

SUBMISSION OF ART AND PHOTOS 2025

  • Dewy Cobweb on Bee Orchid - Judy Upton
    Dewy Cobweb on Bee Orchid – Judy Upton
  • Carrie Buston
    Carrie Buston
  • Carrie Buston
    Carrie Buston
  • Carrie Buston
    Carrie Buston
  • Bumble Bee on Thistle - Keith Ryder
    Bumble Bee on Thistle – Keith Ryder
  • Resting Red Admiral - Keith Ryder
    Resting Red Admiral – Keith Ryder
  • Close Attention - ClaireHunt
    Close Attention – Claire Hunt
  • The Comma on the Buddleia - Ryan Haines
    The Comma on the Buddleia – Ryan Haines
  • Bumble Bee & Fly Approval - Caroline Shaw
    Bumble Bee & Fly Approval – Caroline Shaw
  • Flowers in Vase - Urszula Kasza
    Flowers in Vase – Urszula Kasza
  • Wildflower Wallflower - Carrie Markland
    Wildflower Wallflower – Carrie Markland
  • Cowslips on Steepdown - Mike Tristram
    Cowslips on Steepdown – Mike Tristram Hill Sompting – Local Wildlife Site & Open Access Area –
  • Broadleaf Helleborine - Jay, The Worthing Conservation Volunteers
    Broadleaf Helleborine – Jay, The Worthing Conservation Volunteers
  • A Local Downland Walk - Carol Springhay
    A Local Downland Walk – Carol Springgay
  • Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris) with Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) - Rob Tomlinson
    Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris) with Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) – Rob Tomlinson
  • The Industrious Honey Bee - Claire Western
    The Industrious Honey Bee – Claire Western
  • Field Scabious and Longhorn Beetle - Sharon Harmer
    Field Scabious and Longhorn Beetle – Sharon Harmer
  • As Free as a Flower - Eden Matisse
    As Free as a Flower – Eden Matisse
  • The Child Within - Eden Matisse
    The Child Within – Eden Matisse
  • Going Green - Henry House
    Going Green – Henry House
  • Rock Rose - Lucia Babjakova
    Rock Rose – Lucia Babjakova
  • Thomas Watering our Wildflower Patch - Eastbrook Community Gardeners
    Thomas Watering our Wildflower Patch – Eastbrook Community Gardeners
  • Always something to see walking the hills - Dennis Templeman
    Always something to see walking the hills – Dennis Templeman
  • Bunny and I - Kristy Lascelles
    Bunny and I – Kristy Lascelles
  • Can Butterflies Smile - Julia Horbaschk
    Can Butterflies Smile – Julia Horbaschk
  • National Trust inspiration - Julie Garrard
    National Trust inspiration – Julie Garrard
  • Out of the Blue - Elly Davies
    Out of the Blue – Elly Davies
  • Carrie Buston
    Carrie Buston

After great deliberation, we will be printing and exhibiting the 15 images we felt fulfilled the criteria the best, around various venues in Adur and Worthing. Please check our Facebook/Instagram and this website for venue exhibition dates and details.

All entries were amazing and it was very difficult to choose 15 from them. Which ones are your favourite?

Thanks again for your interest and we all hope you enjoy being creative and inspired by our wonderful wildflowers and their pollinators, everyone at Green Tides.

Below are some of previous year’s entrants 🤩

Michelle Furtado

The Wildflower Trail began as a project by Green Tides and is now proudly led by We Are Pollinator Pioneers CIC — a unique environmental community group dedicated to preserving local ecosystems, connecting communities with nature, providing environmental education, and helping to conserve our region’s vital pollinator populations. Through collaboration, creativity, and care, we support thriving wildflower spaces that benefit both people and wildlife.

To learn more about our work and how you can get involved, visit 👉 www.pollinatorpioneers.org.uk

The Wildflower Trail – Art Celebration 2024

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INFORMATION FOR ENTRANTS 

Thanks for your interest in the second Wildflower Trail Art Celebration, with our theme of Wildflowers and Pollinators. We are aiming to really celebrate the diversity and joy that wildflowers can bring to our communities, as well as our insect friends. 

Our contact email is wildflowerartcomp@gmail.com

The Wildflower Trail is a project by Green Tides, a local not-for-profit organisation supporting our Friends and environmental volunteer groups across Adur and Worthing. We raise funds to deliver essential free training, bring projects to life and support groups with their amazing efforts. To find out more about our work visit www.greentides.org.uk. 

OPEN TO EVERYONE LIVING IN ADUR AND WORTHING, UK

Everyone who lives in Adur and Worthing is welcome to contribute. We have no distinct categories – we are welcoming art or photos that celebrate wildflowers and nature from everyone living locally – children and young people, adults, professional artists or enthusiastic amateurs, we can’t wait to see your efforts. 

SUBMISSION OF ART AND PHOTOS

Everyone can submit one image. We need a good digital image of your art or photos of wildflowers and/or pollinators. Send these to us at wildflowerartcomp@gmail.com. 

The images should be no larger than 5mb in jpeg format. Please include your name, contact email, title of your image and a paragraph about what inspires you and your work. 

A selection of images will be chosen for display in local galleries in Spring 2025. 

SUBMISSION PERIOD 

Submission for the exhibition opens on 1st June and closes on 31st October 2024. No submissions can be accepted after that date.

USE OF IMAGES – TERMS AND CONDITIONS

By submitting your images, you agree to grant Green Tides and The Wildflower Trail a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, distribute, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your images for the purpose of promoting and selling of Green Tides and the Wildflower Trail promotional material only. 

Green Tides and The Wildflower Trail will likely use submitted images to develop promotional materials, such as calendars or cards. We sell these to raise funds, which then support our Friends and environmental volunteer groups in Adur and Worthing. For more information about how we use our funding, please visit: www.greentides.org.uk. 

We will also share the images and your inspiration on our social media channels and our websites. We hope you can also help like and share these too – please follow our social media by visiting: 

The Wildflower Trail on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewildflowertrail/

Green Tides on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenTides 

If you do not want to grant to Green Tides and The Wildflower Trail the rights set out above, please do not submit your images to Green Tides or The Wildflower Trail

Thanks again for your interest and we all hope you enjoy being creative and inspired by our wonderful wildflowers and their pollinators, everyone at Green Tides.

Keep scrolling to see some of last year’s entrants 🤩

Michelle Furtado