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Cotswold Landscape with a Palette Knife by Rupert Aker

The Guildhouse Stanton Stanton, United Kingdom

This oil sketching workshop will be taking place in the beautiful surroundings of Stanton Guildhouse with far reaching views, and focuses on painting the local landscape with oils and palette knife, led by renowned Cotswold artist Rupert Aker. We will work outside if the weather is fine and explore how to sketch quickly with a [...]

Drawing Trees – Subtractive Drawing Workshop with Jessie Carr

Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United Kingdom

Explore the techniques of subtractive drawing to capture the essence and structure of trees with artist, and experienced tutor, Jessie Carr. What is subtractive drawing? Instead of the traditional drawing practise, Graphite is added directly to the paper with your hand or cloth, drawing into the structure for depth, creating highlights  by removing material, revealing [...]

En Plein Air Painting Workshop in the Gardens of Russell House with Tushar Sabale

Russell House Gardens Broadway, United Kingdom

Your chance to spend the day painting en plein air in the stunning private gardens of Russell House, where John Singer Sargent famously painted Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose. In this workshop led by Festival Ambassador Tushar Sabale, you will be painting the gardens from life, to capture the atmospheric light and essence of the place. [...]

Ceramics Day with Potter Claire Watson

The Guildhouse Stanton Stanton, United Kingdom

During this ceramics taster day in the pottery studio in the stunning Stanton Guildhouse you will have the opportunity to learn through a hands on experience with clay, exploring different hand building techniques such as coiling, pinching and slab building. You will also learn how to throw a simple form on the potter’s wheel, delving into [...]

Expressive Landscapes with Rachel Cronin: 3 Day Abstract Workshop

The Guildhouse Stanton Stanton, United Kingdom

This 3 day workshop will help you loosen up and create expressive and bold landscapes using the beautiful surroundings of Stanton Guildhouse as inspiration working with landscape artist Rachel Cronin. The aim of this course is to help you free yourselves from the need to create representational work in order to create work that expresses [...]

Ceramics Day with Potter Claire Watson

The Guildhouse Stanton Stanton, United Kingdom

During this ceramics taster day in the pottery studio in the stunning Stanton Guildhouse you will have the opportunity to learn through a hands on experience with clay, exploring different hand building techniques such as coiling, pinching and slab building. You will also learn how to throw a simple form on the potter’s wheel, delving into [...]

Silver Spinner Ring Jewellery Workshop with Karen Lockton

Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United Kingdom

Your chance to make your very own bespoke silver spinner ring with Karen Lockton of KFL Design. You will learn to shape and texture the silver and solder. There will be the opportunity to create texture and to learn some basic jewellery making skills and how to finish and polish your ring for a sparkling [...]

Wheel Throwing Ceramics Workshop with Claire Watson

The Guildhouse Stanton Stanton, United Kingdom

During this half day in the pottery studio in the stunning Stanton Guildhouse you will learn how to prep the clay pre-throwing and how to centre and pull up a simple form. The therapeutic qualities of clay will have you wanting more! At the end of the session you will have one form which will be [...]

Fused Glass Workshop with Helen Cooper

The Guildhouse Stanton Stanton, United Kingdom

An enjoyable and inspiring creative workshop with Helen Cooper in the beautiful setting of Stanton Guildhouse in their workshop. You will learn how to safely score, break & layer sheet and accessory glass to create a minimum of 3 fused glass items including set of drink stirrers, tea light holders and a coaster.  These will [...]

David Curtis ROI RSMA En Plein Air Painting Demonstration and ‘Stay & Paint’ at Manor Farm

Manor Farm Childswickham Childswickham, England, United Kingdom

David Curtis is one of the UK’s best-known painters, with a number of prestigious art awards. His work is widely exhibited and is also published as fine-art cards and prints. He is the author of the bestselling ‘Light and Mood in Watercolours’ and ‘Capturing the Moment in Oils’. We are delighted that David will be [...]

Designer Lampshade Workshop with Alison Bick

Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United Kingdom

Learn how to make a 30cm diameter lampshade using Alison Bick’s designer fabric. This is a fun and creative workshop learning how to make your own lampshade.  Alison will share her tips and tricks for a professional finish to your lampshade making, and at the end of the workshop session you will take home an [...]

An Introduction Botanical Art with RHS Gold Medalist Ros Franklin

The Lifford Parlour Lifford Hall, Broadway

Ros will take you through a step-by-step approach to the methods used in this traditional art form. You will be shown how to: measure your subject and draw it accurately create three-dimensional form using tonal shading use of watercolours to depict your chosen subject accurately in colour. You will take away enough knowledge to complete [...]

Wheel Throwing Ceramics Workshop with Claire Watson

The Guildhouse Stanton Stanton, United Kingdom

During this half day in the pottery studio in the stunning Stanton Guildhouse you will learn how to prep the clay pre-throwing and how to centre and pull up a simple form. The therapeutic qualities of clay will have you wanting more! At the end of the session you will have one form which will be [...]

Fused Glass Workshop with Helen Cooper

The Guildhouse Stanton Stanton, United Kingdom

An enjoyable and inspiring creative workshop with Helen Cooper in the beautiful setting of Stanton Guildhouse in their workshop. You will learn how to safely score, break & layer sheet and accessory glass to create a minimum of 3 fused glass items including set of drink stirrers, tea light holders and a coaster.  These will [...]

Designer Lampshade Workshop with Alison Bick

Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United Kingdom

Learn how to make a 40cm diameter lampshade using Alison Bick’s designer fabric. This is a fun and creative workshop learning how to make your own lampshade.  Alison will share her tips and tricks for a professional finish to your lampshade making, and at the end of the workshop session you will take home an [...]

Learn to Argentine Tango

Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United Kingdom

Learn to dance the passionate Argentine Tango! This dance workshop is suitable for novice and intermediate dancers with some experience. You will cover the basic steps and simple Argentine Tango and Milonga variations, along with technique, timing, footwork and styling. Paul & Tracey Pritchard from ‘Dance at 8’ will be teaching the 2 hour workshop. [...]

Sketchbooks and Sketching at Snowshill Manor NT with Shelley Perkins

Snowshill Manor & Gardens NT Snowshill, United Kingdom

Join Shelly Perkins for a relaxed day working in sketchbooks around the beautiful Snowshill Manor Gardens. Participants will learn how to break down plein air scenes into bite sized pieces. From loose drawn observations to longer line and watercolour wash studies using mixed media. Participants will cover botanical subjects as well as scenes with the [...]

An Introduction to En Plein Air Painting with Roger Dellar ROI, RSMA, RI, PS, WGA

Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United Kingdom

For those who have some experience of painting in oils, but have little or no experience of painting outdoors and always fancied having a go! Roger Dellar is a member of the ROI, RSMA, RI, PS and the Wapping Group of Artists and is an extremely experienced tutor. Over this 2 day workshop, you will [...]

Silver Clay Pendant Jewellery Workshop

Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United Kingdom

Join Jo Richards for an introduction to Silver Clay workshop making your very own stunning solid silver pendant over the course of 3 hours. Jo has over 25 years of experience designing and creating jewellery. Silver Clay can be cut, shaped and textured with ease - a wonderful way to create your very own unique [...]

Flower Wire Sculpture Workshop with Rachel Higgins

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Renowned local artist Rachel Higgins is an accomplished metal animal sculptor and a member of the Gallery at the Guild, Chipping Campden. She will be leading a half day wire sculpture workshop using a variety of metalwork techniques – wirework, soldering, enamelling, hammering, riveting… for participants to create a 3D metal flowers to take home. [...]

Contemporary Still Life with Acrylic & Collage with Jan Munro

Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United Kingdom

During this workshop students will learn about design and construction of a contemporary still life including how to incorporate collage and pattern, techniques in Acrylic paint, colour palette and mixing and how to move away from reality. This workshop is aimed at all levels, although a bit of experience in using acrylic paints would be [...]

Make a Willow Garden Hare with Rachel Harwood

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Spend the day creating a fabulous 3ft willow Hare sculpture for the garden to take home with you, with willow-weaver Rachel Harwood. Willow is a wonderful sustainable material great for making sculptures for the garden. You will be working with willow from Somerset. Rachel has been working with willow for 10 years and her background [...]

Butterfly Wire Sculpture Workshop with Rachel Higgins

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Renowned local artist Rachel Higgins is an accomplished metal animal sculptor and a member of the Gallery at the Guild, Chipping Campden. She will be leading a half day wire sculpture workshop using a variety of metalwork techniques – wirework, soldering, enamelling, hammering, riveting… for participants to create a 3D butterfly on a stand to [...]

Ceramic Fresian Cow Workshop with Ros Ingram

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Enjoy a day of sculpting a Black and White Cow in clay with ceramicist Ros Ingram. Ros will guide you step by step to create and then decorate your characterful Cow! Your Cow will be taken home by Ros to dry out before it is fired – clay and firing of work included in cost [...]

Coastal Flowers Mixed Media Workshop with Claire Henley

The Lifford Parlour Lifford Hall, Broadway

Spend the day creating a floral painting using acrylics and self-painted collage. Claire will guide you through her process, providing collage materials, some photographic reference and any appropriate foraged flowers, or do bring your own.  A professional artist for forty years, Claire exhibits and licenses her work widely. This is an informal, fun workshop involving painting, gluing, [...]

Classical Alla Prima Portraits – The John Singer Sargent Approach with Peter Keegan

Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United Kingdom

A 2 day portraiture oils workshop with professional artist & tutor Peter Keegan. Working from photographs and inspired by the painterly approach to oil portrait painting used by great artists such as John Singer Sargent who famously painted ‘Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose in Broadway, Peter will guide and demonstrate the artistic principles and practices used [...]

Ceramic Chicken Workshop with Ros Ingram

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Enjoy a morning of sculpting a ceramic Chicken in clay with ceramicist Ros Ingram. Ros will guide you step by step to create and then decorate your Chicken. Your Chicken will be taken home by Ros to dry out before it is fired and returned to you. Please bring an apron. This event will be [...]

En Plein Air Painting in Watercolour with Bobby Open

The Hill Fish Hill, Broadway, United Kingdom

An exciting opportunity to paint in a beautiful private garden on the Upper High Street in Broadway.  True to its name, The Hill is a classic Cotswold stone house nestled in a hillside garden with topiary, mature trees and summerhouses, and fabulous views to Bredon Hill and the Malverns.  Participants will be painting outdoors with [...]

Make a Willow Garden Trug with Rachel Harwood

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Spend the day creating a beautiful willow garden trug to gather all sorts of treasures from your garden with willow-weaver Rachel Harwood. You will be working with different willows from Somerset and using a variety of weaving techniques to create your stunning basket. Rachel has been working with willow for 10 years and her background [...]

Introduction to Picture Framing

The Lifford Parlour Lifford Hall, Broadway

Experience picture framing first hand and mix fun with a sense of achievement, taking away with you your own completed frame at the end of the workshop. A practical and enjoyable workshop for beginners run by framer and tutor Mark Higgins where principles and key tools will be first demonstrated – then you will try [...]

Ceramic Chicken Workshop with Ros Ingram

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Enjoy an afternoon of sculpting a ceramic Chicken in clay with ceramicist Ros Ingram. Ros will guide you step by step to create and then decorate your Chicken. Your Chicken will be taken home by Ros to dry out before it is fired and returned to you. Please bring an apron. This event will be [...]

Mosaic Landscape: Gelli Print & Collage Workshop

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Create a vibrant landscape inspired by the paintings of Dutch artist Ton Schulten, with Liske Johnson (BA Hons Textile Design) & Claire Lundy (BA Hons Printed Textiles) from Littleheath Barn Studio. Use a gelli-plate to create your own coloured papers. We will then look at composition and begin to collage together your chosen landscape. You [...]

Stained Glass Workshop with Vix Brown

The Lifford Parlour Lifford Hall, Broadway

A fun stained glass workshop capturing a Summer garden vibe where you’ll learn to make a sun catcher.  Using the copper foiled method developed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, create colourful birds and/or flowers. Choose from a selection of designs and lovely range of glass colours and textures.  Learn how to cut your glass to the pattern (cartoon) and [...]

Life Drawing for the Slightly Nervous

Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United Kingdom

Join our previous Artist in Residence, Nick Logan for this workshop for those new to Life Drawing. Nick is enthusiastic and experienced tutor and you’ll be working from a live model as he guides you through a conceptual and simple six step process for depicting the human body. Nick Logan acquired his BA (Hons) in [...]

En Plein Air Painting 2 day Workshop with Haidee-Jo Summers ROI RSMA

Springfield House Springfield Lane, Broadway

Learn about painting the light and capturing the essence while painting plein air in the stunning private gardens of Springfield House in Broadway. Haidee-Jo is an internationally renowned plein air painter, Vice President of the Royal Institute of Oil painters and elected member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. She is the author of [...]

Relaxed Life Drawing with Nick Logan

Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United Kingdom

Join our previous Artist in Residence, Nick Logan for this exciting workshop. Nick is enthusiastic and experienced tutor. You’ll be working from a live model as he guides you through a conceptual and simple six step process for depicting the human body. This evening session will suit all abilities as participants have the chance to [...]

Children’s Make your own Tie Dye T-Shirt Workshop

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Join award-winning art facilitator and artist Libby Esler for a vibrant tie-dye session in the big marquee on the village green! Perfect for all skill levels, you'll explore folding techniques, color blending, and creative design to craft your unique tie-dye masterpiece. With years of teaching and exhibiting experience, Libby will guide you step-by-step to unleash [...]

Junior ‘Have-a-Go’ Pot Throw

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Give your youngster the experience of using a Potter’s Wheel to throw a pot in this fun 'Have-a-Go' session. There will be a demonstration first on how to throw a pot on the wheel before having a go themselves with lots of support and guidance throughout. Suitable for complete beginners and even the smallest of [...]

Experimental Print Day

Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United Kingdom

Spend the day experimenting with 3 different fabric printing techniques with Liske Johnson (BA Hons Textile Design) & Claire Lundy (BA Hons Printed Textiles) from Littleheath Barn Studio. This is the perfect introduction to printing, where you will create a selection of printed fabric samples over the day to use in future projects. The three [...]

Children’s Cyanotype Printing Workshop

The Lifford Parlour Lifford Hall, Broadway

Learn how to create prints using the power of the sun! Objects are arranged onto paper that is sensitive to UV light. The arrangement is then exposed to the sun and washed in water to fix. Children will walk away with a handful of striking blue & white silhouette prints. There will be kits available [...]

Junior ‘Have-a-Go’ Pot Throw

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Give your youngster the experience of using a Potter’s Wheel to throw a pot in this fun ‘Have-a-Go’ session. There will be a demonstration first on how to throw a pot on the wheel before having a go themselves with lots of support and guidance throughout. Suitable for complete beginners and even the smallest of [...]

Children’s ‘Make your own clay people’ Sculpture Workshop with Ros Ingram

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Make your very own little clay person using lots of different sculpting techniques, with award-winning ceramicist Ros Ingram. There will be an option to pay separately for kids’ finished people to be fired for a small extra fee. Suitable for the smallest of hands - please bring an apron! Note: Parents or carers will need [...]

Children’s Make your own Tie Dye T-Shirt Workshop

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Join award-winning art facilitator and artist Libby Esler for a vibrant tie-dye session in the big marquee on the village green! Perfect for all skill levels, you'll explore folding techniques, color blending, and creative design to craft your unique tie-dye masterpiece. With years of teaching and exhibiting experience, Libby will guide you step-by-step to unleash [...]

Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

A spin art-producing bicycle – a cross between a Rube Goldberg contraption and a Damien Hirst painting factory machine. Workshop participants add poster paint to cartridge paper mounted on a spinning platter, producing endlessly varied colourful outcomes to take home and keep. Children tend to make better spin-painters as they are fearless in their application [...]

Junior ‘Have-a-Go’ Pot Throw

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Give your youngster the experience of using a Potter’s Wheel to throw a pot in this fun ‘Have-a-Go’ session. There will be a demonstration first on how to throw a pot on the wheel before having a go themselves with lots of support and guidance throughout. Suitable for complete beginners and even the smallest of [...]

Children’s Cyanotype Printing Workshop

The Lifford Parlour Lifford Hall, Broadway

Learn how to create prints using the power of the sun! Objects are arranged onto paper that is sensitive to UV light. The arrangement is then exposed to the sun and washed in water to fix. Children will walk away with a handful of striking blue & white silhouette prints. There will be kits available [...]

Children’s Farmyard Friends Sculpture Workshop with Ros Ingram

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Make your very own farmyard friends using lots of different sculpting techniques, with award-winning ceramicist Ros Ingram. There will be an option to pay separately for kids’ finished people to be fired for a small extra fee. Suitable for the smallest of hands – please bring an apron! Note: Parents or carers will need to [...]

Children’s Make your own Tie Dye T-Shirt Workshop

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

Join award-winning art facilitator and artist Libby Esler for a vibrant tie-dye session in the big marquee on the village green! Perfect for all skill levels, you'll explore folding techniques, color blending, and creative design to craft your unique tie-dye masterpiece. With years of teaching and exhibiting experience, Libby will guide you step-by-step to unleash [...]

Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

A spin art-producing bicycle – a cross between a Rube Goldberg contraption and a Damien Hirst painting factory machine. Workshop participants add poster paint to cartridge paper mounted on a spinning platter, producing endlessly varied colourful outcomes to take home and keep. Children tend to make better spin-painters as they are fearless in their application [...]

Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting

Marquee on the village green Lower Green, Broadway

A spin art-producing bicycle – a cross between a Rube Goldberg contraption and a Damien Hirst painting factory machine. Workshop participants add poster paint to cartridge paper mounted on a spinning platter, producing endlessly varied colourful outcomes to take home and keep. Children tend to make better spin-painters as they are fearless in their application [...]

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