Bristol: 2025

MPO Bristol 2025 was an absolute blast. Hosted in an historic building at the heart of Bristol, we welcomed hobbyists from all over the world to display their work, to make new friends, and to celebrate our amazing hobby of miniature painting.

Doubling the capacity of 2024 was nerve wracking for us and created a lot more planning and preliminary work to make sure the show ran smoothly, but with our hardened crew of volunteers and 8 strong judging team it ended up a brilliant experience and one we can’t wait to repeat next year.

As well as more attendees we also invited a few more vendors this year, and it was great to see El Greco, Artis Opus, Taro Modelmaker and Element Games turn up with tons of cool painting related goodies. And the Cult merch store has become a real hit!

The MPO is here to stay. Both as an online competition towards the end of each year and it’s spring time in person counterpart. You can check out the galleries from all the previous years!

A huge thankyou to the sponsors; Daylight Company, Artis Opus, Harder & Steenbeck, and Redgrass Games. But most of all a huge thank you to everyone who came along and helped make it a must attend show!!!!!

The Miniature Painting Open: Bristol 2025 saw 634 entries from 211 artists from across the globe!

Best Of

Congratulations to our Best of Show and Best of Creative winners! Continuing the tradition from 2024, our Best of Show recipient was awarded a unique, one-of-a-kind signed print of the 2025 Dwarf artwork, specially commissioned from Mark Gibbons.