The Heseltine Gallery Open Exhibition 2025

The Heseltine Gallery Open Exhibition 2025 had a huge number of entries, in the end we exhibited work by over 80 artists, including 17 entrants in our youth category. There were over 150 pieces on display in the gallery which looked wonderful.

You can explore more photos taken during the exhibition in our Photo Gallery.

The Heseltine Gallery Open 2025 Award Winners

Adults – Highly Commended

Jill Tisbury for Sparring Partners (enamelled & lamp-worked glass)

Sue Clayton for Raku Bottle (ceramic)

Linda Johns for Reverie (bronze wire)

Julia Taylor for After Hepworth (ceramic)

Adults – Commended

Caroline Swan for Elements of Time and Texture (acrylic)

Heather Bailey for Orange Earth (acrylic)

Virginia Bennett for Still-life (oil)

Katy Dynes for A Loveliness of Ladybirds (Gouache on 1856 Dictionary Paper)

Deborah Thompson for White Hydrangeas (acrylic)

Youth – Brian Goodey Awards

Lottie Clarke (14) for Macaw (pastel)

Annika Dowden (12) for Far Fields (acrylic)

Youth – Highly commended

Tess Porter (17) for Her Glamour, His Gaze (Digital photography)

Selectors: John Childs (Patron, Heseltine Gallery founder and exhibition programmer) & Tom Christy (Head of Art & Design, Chenderit School; Chairman, Friends of the Heseltine Gallery)

Many congratulations to all our award winners!

People’s Choice Award Winner

Our visitors voted for their favourite artwork in our exhibition and the runaway winner of the People’s Choice Award is youth entry Afia Netten-McCall (age 13) with ‘Roar’

🎉 Congratulations Afia, we loved your painting and so did so many of our visitors!

Details for submission to The Heseltine Gallery Open Exhibition 2026 will be available in the summer.