Festival Ambassadors
Broadway Arts Festival has created the role of Ambassador as part of its development from being a local arts festival to becoming a Festival and school’s outreach programme known regionally and nationally.
- an enhanced range of performers and speakers
- the size and reach of our Benefactors and sponsors
- a much broader audience demographic
- the name and profile of Broadway Arts Festival
Ambassadors have complementary skills sets and experience and each bring an invaluable level of knowledge and understanding of the arts to our organisation.
Margot James
Margot James grew up in Coventry and was educated at Millfield School and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Margot is Executive Chair of WMG at the University of Warwick. Margot champions the innovative scientific research with industry and education that WMG leads with government and other stakeholders. Margot also chairs the independent Climate Change Advisory board to Coventry City Council. She is also a Non-Executive Director of Provident Financial Group and Non-Executive Chair of Taso Advisory.
Margot served as a Member of Parliament between 2010 and 2019 during which time she held a number of roles in government. She was Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries and prior to that Parliamentary Under-Secretary at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Before entering politics Margot started and grew a communications business in the health sector which she sold to WPP in 1999.
Margot lives in the Cotswolds with her partner and enjoys hiking, yoga, music and making time for friends and family.
Richard Ormond
Richard Ormond is the great-nephew of artist John Singer Sargent who famously painted “Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose” whilst staying in Broadway.
Formerly director of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, 1986-2000, and chairman of the Watts Gallery, Compton, UK, 1987-2019.
Richard is the co-author of the John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonné, 9 vols., 1998-2016.
Currently working on a complete catalogue of Sargent’s 750 portrait drawings in charcoal, and on a selection of his letters. Curator of the forthcoming exhibition of ‘Sargent in Spain’ at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Haidee-Jo Summers VPROI RSMA
Haidee-Jo is a full-time professional artist known for painting landscapes and seascapes ‘en plein air’.
Vice President of the Royal Institute of Oil painters (ROI) and full member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA) her work can be seen each year at the Mall Galleries in London in these prestigious society exhibitions. Haidee-Jo is an editorial consultant for The Artist magazine and author of two books on oil painting with Search Press, ‘Vibrant Oils’ and ‘Plein air painting in oils’.
Although oils are very much her preferred medium, Haidee-Jo also produced a large body of work for the Encyclopaedia of Watercolour Techniques and is an avid sketcher. In recent years she has been invited to judge UK and international plein air events, after winning many prizes for her work which features fresh and vibrant brushwork coupled with keen drawing and observational skills.
“The Broadway arts festival is a very special event celebrating the unique artistic legacy of Broadway while inspiring, educating and enriching the lives of so many today. What could be nicer than staying for the whole festival, joining in with arts workshops, watching theatre and music performances, listening to the expertise of an array of interesting speakers, buying unique gifts to take home and enjoying garden tours amongst this beautiful Cotswolds village and landscape. I’m delighted to have been invited to be further involved with the festival as an ambassador and look forward to helping in any way I can.”
Tushar Sabale WGA, CAS
Tushar Sabale is an award winning Indian born, British artist based in London, who mainly paints landscape and cityscapes from life, en plein air, but occasionally enjoys painting objects. Tushar is a fully elected member of the esteemed ‘Wapping Group of Artists’, ‘Chelsea Art Society’ and also ‘The British Plein Air Painters’.
He is the co-founder of ‘The London Plein Air Painters’ group that has close to 300 artist members who come together and paint every month in the city of London.
Tushar has won many National and International awards through his professional career. He was awarded ‘The Green & Stone Main Prize Award’ at their Annual Summer Show and is a recipient of the prestigious ‘Cadogan Award’ presented by the Chelsea Art Society. He has also been a prize winner at many competitions including ‘The Great Broadway Paint Off’ for two consecutive years.
Tushar regularly exhibits his works in many galleries across the country including the Mall galleries for the Federation of British Artists.
“Broadway Arts Festival is one of those platforms that celebrate Art and Artists in true sense. With so many artistic opportunities to indulge, in many ways the festival continues to carry the legacy of ‘The Colony of Artists’. A few summers ago when I first visited the festival as a participating artist, I knew I was going to come back to it again. Little did I know, it was turning into a habit. I am very excited with my new role as an Ambassador to the festival and I look forward to committing myself to its future success with passion and dedication.”
