
Event Description
After a highly successful debut in 2024, ‘The Spirit of Malvern’ En Plein Air Painting Competition for semi-professional and professional artists returns in 2025.
Offering a main prize of £1100, runner-up prize of £500, plus three additional prizes of £120 each for best urbanscape, best landscape and best wildcard entry (this can be anything – so surprise the judges!), this competition is sure to attract entrants from far and wide to the beautiful Victorian spa town of Malvern and its stunning hills.
2025’s bigger and expanded event hopes to capture the landscapes and character of the town and its surrounding designated National Landscape. Even if you are new to Malvern, we are sure our distinctive location will inspire you to create something that captures your sense of ‘The Spirit of Malvern’.
Bring your materials and create an artwork on the day, show in the pop-up exhibition with a chance to win a prize, and sell to our many visitors.
If you live in a WR postcode area, you are also eligible to be judged for the postcode prize.
Please visit the website for full details and booking links (entry fee applies).
Artists must start and end the day at Malvern Theatres, but can choose their own location (within the area covered by the competition rules) at which to paint.
Even if you are not an artist, why not come along to enjoy the awarding of prizes in the Forum Theatre from 3.45pm – 4pm, followed by the pop-up exhibitions immediately afterwards until 5pm.