Join renowned Watercolour artist Brian Smith to explore and develop skills taking your work to the next level. Composition, tonal level, focus, narrative warm and cool. Options are endless, be stretched. Work in quick small 15 minute exercises through to the larger challenge. Collective shape creates a cohesive work draw the viewer in, remember its [...]

Working with pen, pencil or charcoal learn fast and effective ways of recording scenes in a landscape setting in and around the picturesque village of Broadway. Artists will focus on ways of capturing the scene and honing drawing skills. Those attending will appreciate how to observe, interpret and create sketches as a record, or potentially [...]

Introducing colour, participants will build upon the learning points of the previous day, looking at recording the scene in ink and wash, using either watercolour or coloured pencil to complete the scene. This second day is for those who wish to get a better grasp of the watercolour process though loose and lively sketching. Artists [...]

An opportunity to join our award winning artist in residence, Antonia Black, for a very special day long plein air workshop for all abilities at this beautiful and iconic site of Broadway Tower. Abandon your preconceptions and inhibitions as Antonia leads you in a hugely inspiring and enjoyable foray into expressionism and colour in this [...]

Your pastel painting problems solved! My aim is to raise your confidence using this wonderful and versatile medium. A short explanatory talk about the topic will be followed by a portrait painting demonstration in which I will explain the structure of the human head from the pastel-artists point of view. In the afternoon you will [...]

Join Katie Sollohub for this unique opportunity to capture the essence of two remarkable Cotswold’s properties in drawings and mixed media painting studies. This 2 day workshop will be based at Little Buckland Gallery and House but we will also be visiting the house at National Trust property Snowshill Manor and Garden  - the home [...]

This is an opportunity for those who are either novices or have some basic to medium silversmithing skills, to learn a variety of techniques under the careful tutorage of Karen Lockton and her daughter, Francesca. You will learn to solder, hand forge, anneal, finish and polish either a solid sterling silver foldformed pendant, or a [...]

Join Frans Wesselman, a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers for this half day workshop focusing on dry point printing. This workshop will suit all levels from beginners to more experienced printers as this is a chance to learn from a real , (Dutch) master of this printing artform. The process involves incising (or [...]

An opportunity to practice plein air painting in oils with Haidee-Jo Summers, member of the Royal Institute of Oil painters and author of Vibrant Oils, to guide you. In the special setting of Russell House, where Sargent famously painted Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, learn about Haidee-Jo’s fresh and vibrant approach to capturing the light and [...]

Paint bold loose watercolours with "The Artist" magazine's Jake Winkle painting two animal pictures closely supervised by the tutor. Tracing options will be available for those who prefer not to sketch freehand. Back by popular demand after his demonstration at the 2018 festival, this workshop will take place at the Lifford Hall in Broadway. Suitable [...]

Instant Printmaking workshop with Patricia Henry and Gloucester Printmaking Co-operative Participants will be offered three ways of producing instant prints. Instant collagraph where a card or metal based collage can be used as a printing plate; using interesting inking techniques a variety of wonderful prints can be drawn from the plate; monoprint and transfer print [...]

Explore a reverse printing method using coloured slip & resists.   The process encapsulates both printmaking and ceramics, with a painterly approach to ceramic surface decoration. You will learn how to create an image in reverse, thinking front to back, along with layering and resist techniques and finally a simple molding method to create clean [...]

This is a rare opportunity to paint alongside one of the country's finest painters in oil in the Impressionist style, Bruce Yardley. This workshop will take place in the beautiful private gardens of Springfield House in Broadway and Bruce will introduce the day with a talk on painting like the impressionists - as well as [...]

The experience of using a potter's wheel to throw a pot of your very own in this ceramics hour with Honeybourne Pottery. During each workshop they will give the participants a demonstration on how to throw a pot on the potter’s wheel & decorate it using coloured slips. They will provide support throughout the workshop [...]

This fascinator workshop with artisan Louise Pocock Millinery is a fun introduction to millinery and a great way to let your creative hair down! The workshop includes decorating a base with a wide range of colourful trims include sinamay twirls, jewels, beads, feathers and flowers so there’s plenty to choose from. You will learn to [...]

A two-day workshop focusing on the contemporary landscape painting methods of Kieran Stiles. We will be working mainly from direct observation of the shrubberies, hedgerows and trees of the landscape around Little Buckland Gallery. This landscape painting workshop is for people who would like to learn something new and exciting, who are willing to leave their existing approach aside and [...]

Back by popular demand after the sell-out hare & hens workshops in 2018! Create a unique clay fox sculpture with award-winning ceramicist Ros Ingram. All abilities welcome - Please bring an apron! Tickets £35 10 Places Tickets go on sale to the general public through the website at 10am on Good Friday (April 10th 2020) [...]

The experience of using a potter’s wheel to throw a pot of your very own in this ceramics hour with Honeybourne Pottery. During each workshop they will give the participants a demonstration on how to throw a pot on the potter’s wheel & decorate it using coloured slips. They will provide support throughout the workshop [...]

The experience of using a potter’s wheel to throw a pot of your very own in this ceramics hour with Honeybourne Pottery. During each workshop they will give the participants a demonstration on how to throw a pot on the potter’s wheel & decorate it using coloured slips. They will provide support throughout the workshop [...]

Back by popular demand after the sell-out hare & hens workshops in 2018! Create a unique clay owl sculpture with award-winning ceramicist Ros Ingram. All abilities welcome - Please bring an apron! Tickets £35 10 Places Tickets go on sale to the general public through the website at 10am on Good Friday (April 10th 2020) [...]

The experience of using a potter’s wheel to throw a pot of your very own in this ceramics hour with Honeybourne Pottery. During each workshop they will give the participants a demonstration on how to throw a pot on the potter’s wheel & decorate it using coloured slips. They will provide support throughout the workshop [...]

The experience of using a potter’s wheel to throw a pot of your very own in this ceramics hour with Honeybourne Pottery. During each workshop they will give the participants a demonstration on how to throw a pot on the potter’s wheel & decorate it using coloured slips. They will provide support throughout the workshop [...]

Working from a live model, Nick with show you a simple method for depicting the face. There will be an emphasis on value contrast/compression, edges, anatomy, flat and volumetric form. Suitable for all abilities - participants do not need to bring any materials apart from an easel as all will be supplied Restricted to 12 [...]

Featured in Artists and Illustrators Magazine in October 2019, Parastoo Ganjei's expressive flower paintings are gaining an ardent following. Painting in the stunning private rose gardens of Springfield House in Broadway, in this one day workshop artists will explore the innate beauty of roses. Roses are truly the queen of flowers and specially in June [...]

Jane Bevan is an artist with a passion for English woodlands, who forages for natural materials which she ties, stitches and binds together to make her artworks. Her materials are those that might otherwise be trodden on or overlooked, such as feathers, twigs, bark, seeds and thorns reflecting the beauty and perfection in the detail [...]

Renowned local artist Rachel Higgins is a metal animal sculptor and a member of the Gallery at the Guild, Chipping Campden. Back by popular demand after her sell-out workshop in 2018, she will be leading a workshop using a variety of metalwork techniques - wirework, soldering, hammering, riveting... to create a 3D metal bird from [...]

This is an opportunity for those who are either novices or have some basic to medium silversmithing skills, to learn a variety of techniques under the careful tutorage of Karen Lockton and her daughter, Francesca. You will learn to solder, hand forge, anneal, finish and polish a solid sterling silver pendant. Karen and Francesca run [...]