FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
REGISTRATION FOR 2025 HAS NOW CLOSED
Thank you to all who have applied.
Look out for further notifications from Eventaly and the Art Trail Team regarding your application, payments etc.
2. Pay a £40 registration fee per artist for the 2 day art trail event
3. Submit an image and brief description/bio of their work for inclusion in the event brochure. Please supply an image for your promotion and an image that can be cut out in landscape format at a resolution of 300dpi (large image). *If you do not have any suitable images or require help we will be hosting an evening where we can take photographs or your work (for a fee to be confirmed) along with business cards / postcard templates, all details of this will be confirmed at a later date.
4. Donate A Raffle Prize
This year, we ask that each artist kindly donate a raffle prize as part of your registration such as:
a piece of your own work that is signature to your style
represents your work e.g. prints of your work - cards, giclee, calendar, sample work
Raffle tickets will be sold in the lead-up to and during the Art Trail weekend, with the prize drawing taking place on Sunday 28th September afternoon.
All funds raised will contribute to the Batheaston Art Trail 2026, helping to keep future registration costs affordable.
The Art Trail is a two day event open to all local artists, craftspeople, and performers wishing to showcase and sell their work. This includes - a website artist listing for 3 months, poster advertising across over 120 venues, social media promotion, venue promotion pack with bunting (returnable at the end of the event).
Registration is open to artists based in the Batheaston area, including the Box Rd, Bannerdown, and London Road East regions.
We also welcome artists to register from outside the Batheaston area & they can book an exhibition space at either St John’s Church, Batheaston New Village Hall and due to demand this year, our new venue Batheaston Scouts 23rd Avonvale Scout Hall.
Accepted art forms include, but are not limited to:
Ceramics
Collage
Craft & Design
Drawing
Glass
Hand-made Furniture
Illustration
Jewellery
Painting
Performance
Photography
Printmaking
Recycling/Upcycling
Sculpture
Street Art
Textiles
WHERE CAN I EXHIBIT? Artists are invited to exhibit their work in their own studios or homes, or at one of the following community venues: St John’s Church, Batheaston New Village Hall, Batheaston Scout Hall Hosting Your Open Studio: Opening your studio to the public is an invaluable opportunity to make connections, gather feedback, and, of course, sell your work. While it can be a rewarding experience, hosting an open studio requires careful planning and preparation. Be aware that visitor numbers can vary greatly, and there may be quiet periods followed by busier times. It’s important that you feel comfortable opening your space to visitors and are prepared for fluctuations in traffic.
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We are not allowed to stick or attach anything to the walls, so it is worth thinking
about bringing collapsible shelving for display.
Cloths for tables.
Portable lights, cable for lighting and gang socket (there are a total of 12 wall
sockets in the room of the Batheaston New Village Hall, 4 double wall sockets in Batheaston Scout Hall)
Cover for cable
If required:
In the Batheaston Village Hall
Table - large 6 ft x 27” (you will have to be prepared get this out from store in
hall and put away at end of exhibition).
Chairs
In the Batheaston Scout Hall
Table - large 6ft x 27"
Chairs
If you are exhibiting in the church we have several tables and pews that can be used for display but if you have your own, please do bring them along as well as any display boards and/or easels.
For the Batheaston New Village Hall & Batheaston Scout Hall - 8ft wide x 6ft deep
Please respect other stall holders and keep within the allotted size of your stall.
Lighting is really important so please bring any extra spotlights if you can.
If you are exhibiting in the church we have several tables and pews that can be used for display but if you have your own, please do bring them along as well as any display boards and/or easels.
A good idea for displaying prints is by using an upturned stool so people could flick through the selection of framed prints.
Tablecloths work well especially if one colour.
Use business cards if you have them or even a simple sheet laminated and chopped up.
Village hall - Please bring all your drink and food needed. There is a kitchen
where you can make beverages, also a fridge and microwave for heating food
Scout Hall - Kitchen where you can make beverages, a fridge, no microwave however.
Church – refreshments will be available to purchase
Consider using a card reader such as IZettle, Square or SumUp. These providers also now use apps installed on your phone for directly taking payments if you don't have a reader.
There is WIFI available in both the church and village hall or you could hotspot from your
mobile.
We hope to provide WIFI at the Scout Hall - to be confirmed.
You could also have your bank details printed out to do a bank transfer
as an alternative.
We use bunting in Suffragette colours of green, purple and white will be used to highlight the exterior of all the venues so they are easier to spot from a distance and people can see where they are heading.
We print a leaflet for the art trail and this includes a map of venues and participating artists.
A map will also be available online on both our own website & Grow Batheaston website
INFORMATION PACKS FOR VENUES:
There will also be VENUE NUMBERS and DIRECTIONAL SIGNS included in your information
pack. For those artists exhibiting at home or in your studio, please place your venue number on your house or studio and help to direct people to your venue by placing the directional signs on your road in strategic places.
Artists receive a website listing for 3 months.
As well as updates on our website, we also promote the art trail on the Grow Batheaston and Batheaston Art Trail Facebook and Instagram (/thebatheastonarttrail) social feeds.
We kindly ask you all to please help promote the event through your own social media channels and followers, and please don’t forget to hashtag Batheaston, Bath Art, art trail, Grow Batheaston and thebatheastonarttrail etc. It all helps to spread the word!
If you don’t have an Instagram account, we really recommend you setting one
up – here’s how https://www.wikihow.com/Create-an-Instagram-Account
We send press releases to the following publications to be included as an online listing or printed articles:
Welcome to Bath
Visit Bath
Bath and Wiltshire Parent
Bath Rocks
Bath Open Studios
Banes email
Bath Bid
Bathnewseum
Local Look (article included)
Batheaston Times
Bathford Bulletin
Bath Chronicle
Circus Magazine
Somerset Life
Wiltshire Times
Bath Magazine (event included in their magazine and online diary and newsletter)
Bath life (They have done a double page feature on the trail)
The various local radio channels will also be contacted.
The art trail committee plus artists distribute posters and leaflets to over 150 venues.
We also strongly encourage each artist involved in the trail to promote the trail where they are able to do so, and to put up posters where clearly visible and appropriate near you. If in doubt, please contact us as we have a complete list of venues covered.
Please remember to return your bunting, venue numbers and directional signs in your named folder to the Church porch.
The bunting costs £15 each and we are trying hard to keep costs down for everyone and reuse as much as we can.