
2026 Creative Lincs Art Trail - 26th, 27th, 28th June
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Please read the Terms and Conditions below, then click on the Submission Form button.
Terms and Conditions:
1. The Creative Lincs Art Trail is open to all artists living within the county of Lincolnshire.
2. The cost for participating in the Art Trail is £30 per artist.
3. It is a condition of taking part in the Creative Lincs Art Trail that all Open Studios must take out public liability insurance. For example: www.a-n.co.uk/about/insurance Creative Lincs takes no responsibility for injury to members of the public when visiting Open Studios.
4. Creative Lincs reserves the right to review submitted listings and if any change is needed, you will be advised of this. For example:
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Listings which exceed the stated word count.
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Composite images (where a single image is made up of several smaller ones) will not be accepted.
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Images to be included in the printed brochure should not include logos, or other written information. Only words or lettering integral to the artwork will be accepted.
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Creative Lincs reserves the right to make changes to listings to comply with the House style where relevant. Creative Lincs House style includes specifics relating to grammar, punctuation, bold and italic type.
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Creative Lincs reserves the right to make final decisions on the layout of listings, including placement of images, in all cases.
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The design and lay-out of the Creative Lincs brochure is dictated by necessities of space and other essential design considerations, meaning we cannot accept requests from individual Open Studios concerning specific listing placements or trail order.
5. All Open Studios must undertake to correct any errors on their brochure listing and map proofs and upload all corrections by the date specified. Creative Lincs cannot accept responsibility for any errors not clearly marked up and returned at proof stage.
6. All exhibits and sales at Art Trail venues should be limited to works (paintings, 3-D work, prints, cards) and merchandise created by the artists who have signed up as participants in the Art Trail.
7. Creative Lincs reserves the right to refund payment and withdraw any entry that does not, after due consultation and consideration, comply with our Terms and Conditions of registration. Listings or venues displaying images or language considered to be homophobic, racist, sexist, ageist, abusive to people with learning or other disabilities or otherwise exploitative of others, will not be accepted and the right to register with Creative Lincs may be withdrawn.
8. If you live in a multi-occupancy building, you must seek agreement from landlords and /or co-residents in the building before opening your venue. Please make sure you take your neighbours into consideration at all times.
9. Creative Lincs’ purpose is to promote practicing artists displaying/selling their own work. Commercial premises are welcome to take part in the Art Trail, but the images and words used in the Art Trail listings must be relevant solely to the exhibition of artists’ work that they are hosting. Listings must not be used to promote a business or other unrelated business activities.
10. If venues wish to hold a preview evening, they may do so, promoting it on their own social media.
11. Full refunds are available until the end of the registration period only (15 February 2026). It is agreed that full refunds for listings withdrawn from the festival cannot be made once the brochure has reached proof stage. Partial refunds only will be offered, where possible, from proof stage and beyond, but cannot be guaranteed.
12. It is agreed that images uploaded as part of Creative Lincs listings or sent to Creative Lincs and/or their PR campaign coordinator for any promotional purposes, can be used by Creative Lincs and their PR campaign coordinator for any relevant promotional purposes without payment to the artists or seeking their further approval. Creative Lincs and/or their PR coordinator will supply all publications with artist image credits but cannot be held responsible for any publication’s failure to credit images.
13. It is recommended that Open Studios with dogs make sure the dog is controlled or shut in a different area of the house during open hours, particularly if the dog has a tendency to be child or visitor unfriendly.
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The Creative Lincs Art Trail takes place over the last weekend in June.
To meet its objectives, Creative Lincs intends to, but is not limited to, provide the following services. (Creative Lincs reserves the right to change these services from year to year):
By registering as a Creative Lincs Art Trail venue you will benefit from the following:
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Your venue listed in the Art Trail printed brochure, a number of which will be delivered to you for distribution in your local area.
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Your venue listed in the Creative Lincs Newsletter, May and June editions.
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Your venue listed on the Creative Lincs website.
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Your venue listed as part of the social media campaign, including Facebook and Instagram.
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Invitation to take part in a feedback survey.
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