Adopt an Artist 2025
Gloucester City
GCA Artist Jane Spooner and Adopt an Artist Competition 2025 First Prize winner Sidonie Moss with their paintings on the gallery wall behind them. (copyright Gloucester Contemporary Artists).
Building on last year's success, the city-centre shop window art gallery returned bigger and better for 2025.
22 city centre shops, cafes and businesses displayed works of art by local professional artists in their windows until 19 June.
We invited anyone who enjoys art to use one of the exhibited artworks as an inspiration to create their own work and enter our competition. Entry was free.
The competition winners were announced on Sunday 22nd June.
The entrants competed for a 1st prize of £200, 2nd prize of £100 and 3rd prize of £50 and Junior entries were awarded a 1st prize of £30, 2nd prize of £20 and 3rd prize of £10.
The winners (with the name of the GCA artist that inspired them in brackets) are:
First - Sidonie Moss (Jane Spooner)
Second Colin Beard (Jane Spooner)
Third Sudheesh (Jaqueline Hammond)
Junior award
First Olivia Dunn (Sue Jarvis)
Second Ruth Cooper (Sean Dunn)
Third Rebecca Gregory (David Finch)
Gloucester Art Trail 2025 is an independent event funded by Gloucester Contemporary Artists, supported by city centre businesses and with competition prizes sponsored by Gloucester Framers.