Welcome to Derbyshire Open Arts 2025. We’re delighted that you want to join our hugely successful event and look forward to working together to help you showcase your work during Derbyshire’s premier countywide Open Studios event. Please read these introductory notes carefully before starting your application.
The application is spread over 5 sections which you can complete in any order. You can save each section of the form for later submission. As you complete each section, the form will auto-save every sixty seconds. However please press the save button at the bottom of the page before moving on to the next. The final page is for you to ‘Pay and Submit’ your entry. Your entry will not be accepted until you have submitted and paid by card or PayPal.
Please take time to get your application right before you submit and pay. What you enter will be your page on our website and form the basis of your entry in the brochure. You will get a chance to check your webpage before it goes live to the public, but not your brochure entry.
Any changes that need to be made to your entry after it is submitted will incur a £10 admin charge.
Please read Terms and Conditions, by clicking the tab. Please note that all venues MUST be within the Derbyshire borders. No exceptions can be considered.
To complete the form you will need to have ready:
Your contact details - The address of the studio or venue where you will be open, your phone and email details, links for website and social media and any shopping platforms you may use.
A brief description of your artwork - Space in the brochure is limited to 30 words. Please note that you will not be able to change this when we release the webpage for you to check. You can add up to 300 words about you and your work for the website listing on the next page of the application.
Images of your work for the brochure and website - You will need up to 7 images of your work, which includes one for the brochure:
- For the Brochure - you will need 1 landscape image 300dpi in landscape format. Portrait and square images will not work well in the brovhure.
- For the website - You will need up to 6 images of any orientation and around 1mb in size.
- Single images only please - no multiple images within one image.
Public Liability Insurance - You need to ensure that you have appropriate public liability insurance covering our event dates. Artists membership organisations sometimes include insurance in their membership; or you can take out relevant insurance with an insurance company. Please make sure that the insurance meets your needs.
Payment – Finally, once you’ve completed your details, text and images, to complete the application you’ll need to pay by debit, credit card or PayPal. To take part in Derbyshire Open Arts your yearly fee will be £95.00.
Publicising our great event and your brilliant work is a joint responsibility. The committee of Derbyshire Open Arts will do their best to publicise the event via distribution of the brochure, print and social media, TV, radio and so on. However, we can't do this on our own. As a participating artist, you are expected to help in publicising the event and your work in your local area and using your social media contacts. We ask you to fill in how many brochures, flyers, posters, signs and balloons you need – if you are in a multi-artist venue you may need to coordinate this with other participants.
Section 1 - Information for our brochure
Your entry fee gives you 1⁄4 page in our brochure, consisting of 1 image, up to 30 words describing your work, your venue address and contact details.
- First Name
- Last name
- Venue address
- Phone number
- Website address
- Genre
- Image
Section 2 - Information for the website
On our website, you will get up to 6 images, up to 300 words describing you and your work, address, contact details, etc
- Up to 6 images, each between 1MB and 2MB
- Description of you and your work, max 300 words
- Directions to your venue, maximum 30 words.
- what3words (directions app)
- Opening times
- Preview evening
- Commissions
- Tuition / workshops
- Disabled access
- Social media links
- Selling platform links