English Riviera Open Studios
Sat, Apr 05
|Torquay
Take part in the first ever English Riviera Open Studios, a fun, accessible, audience friendly open studios event for Torbay.


Time & Location
Apr 05, 2025, 10:00 AM – Apr 13, 2025, 4:00 PM
Torquay, 5 Vaughan Parade, Torquay TQ2 5JG, UK
About the event
Torbay Guild of Artists and Artizan Collective are pleased to announce the first ever English Riviera Open Studios, an exciting new arts event for Torbay.
Planned for Easter 2025, the two organisations hope the event will offer an ultra friendly, affordable, local open studios events, that will be a vibrant addition to the areas cultural scene.
"We want our Open to be user friendly and accessible to our members as well as other Torbay artists. We'll be offering guidance, help and assistance on how to open your home studio to the public from our experienced members that have opened their homes and managed exhibitions before. Through this, we'll make sure you feel safe welcoming audiences, have systems in place for taking payments, and know how to make the event as successful as possible for your practice."
"We're modelling the event on the highly successful Devon Open Studios that many of you will have participated in, which is a wonderful regional event. Unlike Devon Open however, we wanted to offer something that will be more localised, and worked at a scale that the Guild and partners could offer dedicated support to its members and other local artists, to create an opportunity that was friendly, accessible and affordable."
For full event details head back to www.artizangallery.co.uk/rivieraopenstudios but the key things you need to know about the event are:
- 9 day event in Easter including 2 weekends with the option to host your own launch events and activity the Friday before the event (4th April). Artists will be required to open both weekends and a minimum of 2 weekdays (6 of 9 days total)
- Guidance and support throughout on taking payments, welcoming audiences, collecting audience information and fundraising
- A full printed guide including venue listings, event map and other information about the area, as well as supporting digital and print marketing materials and templates.
- Opportunity to promote workshops, classes and other activity both during the event and beyond
- Opportunities for guild members outside of the English Riviera to get involved
- Artist matching/venue finding for those without a studio to open
- Low-cost entry fee of just £80 for guild members (payable as a one off or in installments)
- Event raffle with top prize of £250 to spend at the studios
- All event infrastructure and permissions organised by the Guild and Artizan Collective with Torbay Council for a safe and compliant event
- But most importantly, the event will be simple, fun and friendly, adding value to our creative community, and enabling you to show your beautiful artwork and unique home studio situation.
If you're ready to sign up and be one of the first to get involved, just add one of the payment options below, and at checkout you'll be prompted to provide your first stage event info.
What information we need
At this first stage, we'll ask you for:
- Your Name
- Contact Email
- Contact Phone
- Your Venue Address (if known at this time)
- A Website where we can view your work
- Your Torbay Guild Membership Status
Payment options
There are two payment options:
- £100.00 standard sign up
- £80.00 guild member sign up (use this reduced rate if you are an existing or newly signed up guild member)
At checkout, you'll also be offered the option to use "PayPal Pay in 3" to pay your fee in 3 installments. This requires a PayPal account.
Terms and Conditions
By making your payment it is understood that you have read and accepted the Terms and Conditions for participants available here.
Tickets
Standard Studio Signup
£100.00Torbay Guild Studio Sign Up
Discounted rate for Torbay Guild members.
£80.00
Total
£0.00