The Gibraltar Heritage Trust will be holding its annual open-air painting/sketching competition on Saturday 8th May. The theme this year is “Europa Flats” in the area of Europa Point. This year’s competition will be the 32^nd anniversary of the event which has seen participation over the years from a wide range of Gibraltar’s artists – amateurs to professional. Despite the ongoing pandemic of 2020, the Trust says they have continued this event and are delighted to be restoring and hosting an in-person competition this year where they hope to see as high a turnout of participants as we saw last year.

Registration of participants will take place on site, on the day as from 9.00am until 12:30pm. Pre-registration and Rules of the competition will also be made available on our website.

Painting/sketching must take place between 9:00am and 5pm. Any type of traditional artistic media will be accepted. Participants must supply their own art materials. Entries should not be larger than 76cm x 60cm.

On completion, participants will be required to hand in their entries to a representative of the Gibraltar Heritage Trust at the Trust Office at 13 John Mackintosh Square. All entries must be handed in by the deadline of 5:00pm.

The competition is divided into four groups: -

Adults (aged 17 and over), Juniors (aged 11 to 16), Children (aged 7-10), Infants (aged 6 and under) 

Prizes will be as follows: -