
The Great Broadway Paint-Off 2026
Sun June 7, 2026 @ 8:30 am - 5:00 pm BST
Your chance to draw or paint our beautiful Cotswolds village for the day and be in with a chance of winning great prizes along with other artists from across the UK!
This is a very popular event that attracts both professional and emerging artists.
Judges in 2026 will include our Festival Artist in Residence, Claire Henley, who will walk the village to chat with the artists during the day.
Numerous main prizes plus a visitors’ choice prize voted on by visitors to the free exhibition of entries at the end of the afternoon.
NOTE: we will also be holding a separate Portrait Paint-Off at the Lifford Hall during the day for those who prefer painting people rather than en plein air!
How does it work?
- Buy your ticket through the website well in advance and before 15th May. Note: You can only buy a ticket for yourself, not multiples for friends.
- Turn up with your blank canvas and your kit at the gazebo on the village green in the centre of the village in the time slot you selected to check in and get your canvas stamped & numbered on the reverse.
- Spend the day creating your masterpiece at your chosen location in or around the village (you can paint up at Broadway Tower too).
- Get your work of art back to the Lifford Hall anytime from 2pm, but by 3:30pm at the very latest. If you have used an easel, please leave it on your easel for display in the exhibition.
- If you would like to sell your work, tell us the price when you hand it back in.
- The entries will then form a selling exhibition and be judged. Prize-winners will see a ribbon on their piece when the exhibition opens at 4pm.
- The selling exhibition is then open to the public for all to enjoy from 4pm to 5pm.
- Only artwork started and completed on the day will qualify.
- Artwork can be in any medium & any size, however we cannot accept photography or iPad art as a medium for a number of reasons.
- We process all artwork sales at the exhibition through our card machine and then transfer 90% of the sale price directly to your bank account in the following days. 10% of all sales are retained as commission to help cover the costs of running the competition. A red dot will appear on sold works.
This event will go ahead despite poor weather (no refunds) – so please dress appropriately!
There will be 75 tickets available for this event and they need to be purchased in advance, by 15th May at the latest.
Tickets will be going on sale through the website in early January 2026.
Participants will need to bring their own paper, canvas and art supplies. These will not be provided.
You will have a choice of registration slot at the gazebo on the village green:
Early Birds: 8:30-9:30am
Still Keen: 9:30-10:30am
Broadway Arts Festival accepts no responsibility for loss, damage or injury during the day.
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We are paperless!
You don’t need to print and bring your tickets.
Simply give your surname at the door and we will tick you off our guest list.