artBEAT – The opening weekend of Broadway Arts Festival 2023
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayartBEAT is the opening 3 day weekend for the festival that showcases the work of some of Britain’s top artists, designers and artisans in the main marquee on the village green in this idyllic Cotswold village. Throughout the weekend the marquee will house talented artists, printmakers, sculptors, jewellers, ceramicists, designer-makers and a host of traditional [...]
Ceramics Day with Claire Watson
The Guildhouse Stanton StantonDuring 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 [...]
Open Studio – Pink Harrison
Pye Corner Mill Bury End, BroadwayMeet artist Pink Harrison in her studio, where her paintings and prints are hanging. Working in oils and watercolours, you will see the sketches of her travels, and materials relating to the finished paintings, and all the tools of a working artist’s studio. Pye Corner Mill is within walking distance from Broadway High Street (Midway between [...]
Yoga & Art Mindfulness Day Retreat
The Guildhouse Stanton StantonDisconnect from the distractions of everyday life to refresh, revive and reconnect with our mindfulness day retreat at beautiful Stanton Guildhouse. The day will start and finish with deep Yoga Nidra meditation led by Aston Colley, outside on the lawns with views over the Cotswolds countryside (weather permitting). Mindful ceramics session in the studio sculpting clay from resident [...]
Sketchbook Explorations in Mixed Media with Shelley Rhodes
The Guildhouse Stanton StantonA weekend of exploration for all levels, using mixed media with paper, cloth and stitch. Inspired by our beautiful surroundings at Stanton Guildhouse, you will be guided through experimental approaches to drawing, mark-making and presentation as you fill several small sketchbooks. Shelley is a mixed media artist who records daily in a sketchbook. She has [...]
‘Car Design: Art and Engineering’ by Carsten Astheimer
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayDesign is the process where an idea comes to life, especially in car design; a mix of art and engineering, the result of a multi-disciplinary team often including tens of thousands of people. Although technology has changed dramatically, the art of creating a beautiful car has hardly changed at all. This illustrated talk by car [...]
Portrait Painting in Oils: Demonstration by Haidee-Jo Summers ROI RSMA
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayWatch contemporary impressionist artist Haidee-Jo Summers ROI RSMA, paint a complete portrait from start to finish from a live model. Haidee-Jo strives for simplicity and economy in her work, and she will show you how she makes every mark count. This event will be taking place in the Lifford Hall in Broadway. Tickets £17 Tickets [...]
Oil Painting Demonstration – Landscapes with Vicki Norman
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayAward winning artist and tutor Vicki Norman will demonstrate a Cotswold scene painted in oils with an explanation of how to convey a sense of light and atmosphere in a landscape scene. She will include information for artists in all media about colour, design, tonal values and brushwork. Vicki is known for her knowledge about [...]
Papercut Flora and Fauna Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayPaper cutting is a subtractive drawing process, using a craft knife to create negative space, allowing the remaining paper to appear as dynamic lines and shapes. The process of paper cutting is deeply therapeutic and relaxing. Removing shapes to reveal a design takes you into an almost meditative state that sharpens focus and calms the [...]
Wheel Throwing Ceramics Workshop with Claire Watson
The Guildhouse Stanton StantonDuring 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 [...]
Create with Nature workshop with Jane Bevan
The Guildhouse Stanton StantonThe workshop is a playful and creative day, suitable for all who love nature and wish to spend a day making nature art together. Using leaves, grasses, bark, feathers and seeds, some of which we will gather outside in our beautiful surroundings, we will make artworks to include collage, wall hangings and mini sculpture. We [...]
Papercut Flora and Fauna Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayPaper cutting is a subtractive drawing process, using a craft knife to create negative space, allowing the remaining paper to appear as dynamic lines and shapes. The process of paper cutting is deeply therapeutic and relaxing. Removing shapes to reveal a design takes you into an almost meditative state that sharpens focus and calms the [...]
Wheel Throwing Ceramics Workshop with Claire Watson
The Guildhouse Stanton StantonDuring 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 [...]
‘Reread, Revisit, Rethink’ with Loyd Grossman
Cidermill Theatre Cidermill Lane, Chipping Campden, GloucestershireDistinguished art historian, travel writer and broadcaster, Loyd Grossman, reflects on places he thought he knew well, but continues to find new and surprising insights. His next book is on Paris, a city that he is now learning to know and enjoy much more intensely. Join him on this journey of rediscovery. "I reread, not because [...]
En Plein Air Painting with Vicki Norman
The Guildhouse Stanton StantonSpend the day painting En Plein Air with award-winning artist and tutor Vicki Norman in the stunning grounds of Stanton Guildhouse. Beginning with fundamental principles, you’ll take part in a series of exercises and colour studies painted in this special location. Accurate and sensitive colour perception is key in capturing a sense of light in [...]
Introduction to Picture Framing with Mark Higgins
The Guildhouse Stanton StantonExperience 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 [...]
Thumbnail Sketching with Ink & Wash – Tansy Hargan
Around the village 1 The Green, BroadwayThis workshop focuses on using a viewfinder and thumbnail grid to crop and sketch multiple compositions across a sketchbook spread using ink and wash. The rhythm and momentum of the method makes for an immersive and productive session, resulting in an array of annotated miniature scenes, which may simply be a stand-alone pleasure or could [...]
Botanical ceramics workshop with Ros Ingram
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayJoin ceramic artist Ros Ingram to create a beautiful plaster cast of seasonal flowers and foliage found in the borders and hedgerows of the Cotswolds. There will be the option to add a touch of gold leaf to this pure white botanical relief. Ros has 20 years of teaching experience, has won several international ceramic [...]
Mixed Media Thumbnail Sketching – Tansy Hargan
Around the village 1 The Green, BroadwayThis workshop focuses on using a viewfinder and thumbnail grid to crop and sketch multiple compositions across a sketchbook spread using mixed media. The rhythm and momentum of the method makes for an immersive and productive session, resulting in an array of annotated miniature scenes, which may simply be a stand-alone pleasure or could feed [...]
Sausage Dog Clay Sculpture workshop with Ros Ingram
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayBack by popular demand after the sell-out fox & owl workshops in 2021. Create a unique sausage dog sculpture with award-winning ceramicist Ros Ingram - to start or add to your collection! All abilities welcome. Please bring an apron. This event will be taking place in the Lifford Hall in the centre of Broadway. All [...]
Dragonfly Wire Sculpture Workshop with Rachel Higgins
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayRenowned 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 day workshop using a variety of metalwork techniques - wirework, soldering, hammering, riveting… for participants to create a 3D metal dragonfly to take home. A member of the [...]
Abstraction through Thumbnail Sketching at Snowshill Manor NT – Tansy Hargan
Snowshill Manor & Gardens NT SnowshillThis workshop will be based in the gardens and orchard of National Trust property, Snowshill Manor, just a 5 min drive outside Broadway village. Snowshill Manor is a beautiful Cotswold Stone manor house built c1550 and restored by architect, artist, poet and craftsman Charles Paget Wade. The terraced gardens here are the perfect place to unwind [...]
Guinea Fowl Clay Sculpture workshop with Ros Ingram
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayBack by popular demand after the sell-out fox & owl workshops in 2021. Create a unique guinea fowl sculpture with award-winning ceramicist Ros Ingram - to start or add to your collection! All abilities welcome. Please bring an apron. This event will be taking place in the Lifford Hall in the centre of Broadway. All [...]
Seascapes in Collage Workshop with Susan Watt
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwaySusan Watt is a local artist who ‘paints with paper’. In this fun workshop you will be guided through the process of creating a unique seascape using only recycled magazines and PVA glue! You will learn about composition, colour and how to create depth and texture in your work. If you’d like to see examples [...]
Introduction to Picture Framing with Mark Higgins
The Lifford Parlour Lifford Hall, BroadwayExperience 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 [...]
“Loving Vincent” Film Screening
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayWe are pleased to announce that we are teaming up with the Broadway Cinema Club to bring you the award-winning film “Loving Vincent” on the evening of Thursday 15th June (Cert 12). Released in 2017 Loving Vincent is an experimental animated biographical drama about the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh, and in particular [...]
Portrait Drawing in Sanguine with Nick Logan
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayAre you inspired by Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year? Fancy learning how to do this yourself? Then join our Artist in Residence Nick Logan for this full day portrait workshop! You’ll be working from a live model as Nick shows you a simple method for depicting the face. There will be an emphasis [...]
Stained Glass Workshop with Vix Brown
The Lifford Parlour Lifford Hall, BroadwayA 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 in Sanguine with Nick Logan
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayWorking from a live model, festival Artist in Residence Nick Logan will guide you through a conceptual and simple six step process for depicting the human body. Only know one approach to drawing? Do you want to learn new techniques and concepts to sharpen and hone your visual skills? Then this workshop is ideal for [...]
Children’s Summer Meadow Painting Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayCreate a beautiful, colourful summer meadow painting using a range of techniques such as sponging, layering, blending, collage and paint splatting. Learn how to carefully build up colours and textures in sequence with expert guidance from two professional artists, Beth and Georgina from Artbase, to create an amazing Impressionist inspired masterpiece to take home. This [...]
Children’s Undersea Paper Lantern Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayCome and transform a simple paper lantern into an amazing sea creature! Choose from an octopus, angel fish, shark, dolphin or jellyfish and use colourful paints and collage materials to bring your creature to life. A small battery powered light will also be supplied to light up your sea creature at night, making it a [...]
Rapid Sketching Workshop with Tim Fisher
Willersey Willersey, GloucestershireWorking with pen and pencil, learn fast and effective ways of recording scenes in the quiet picturesque village of Willersey, 5 mins drive from Broadway. You will focus on ways of rapidly capturing the scene and how to improve your drawing skills. Those attending will appreciate how to observe and create sketches as a record, [...]
Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA 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 Summer Meadow Painting Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayCreate a beautiful, colourful summer meadow painting using a range of techniques such as sponging, layering, blending, collage and paint splatting. Learn how to carefully build up colours and textures in sequence with expert guidance from two professional artists, Beth and Georgina from Artbase, to create an amazing Impressionist inspired masterpiece to take home. This [...]
Children’s Undersea Paper Lantern Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayCome and transform a simple paper lantern into an amazing sea creature! Choose from an octopus, angel fish, shark, dolphin or jellyfish and use colourful paints and collage materials to bring your creature to life. A small battery powered light will also be supplied to light up your sea creature at night, making it a [...]
Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA 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 Summer Meadow Painting Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayCreate a beautiful, colourful summer meadow painting using a range of techniques such as sponging, layering, blending, collage and paint splatting. Learn how to carefully build up colours and textures in sequence with expert guidance from two professional artists, Beth and Georgina from Artbase, to create an amazing Impressionist inspired masterpiece to take home. This [...]
Children’s Undersea Paper Lantern Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayCome and transform a simple paper lantern into an amazing sea creature! Choose from an octopus, angel fish, shark, dolphin or jellyfish and use colourful paints and collage materials to bring your creature to life. A small battery powered light will also be supplied to light up your sea creature at night, making it a [...]
Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA 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 Summer Meadow Painting Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayCreate a beautiful, colourful summer meadow painting using a range of techniques such as sponging, layering, blending, collage and paint splatting. Learn how to carefully build up colours and textures in sequence with expert guidance from two professional artists, Beth and Georgina from Artbase, to create an amazing Impressionist inspired masterpiece to take home. This [...]
Children’s Undersea Paper Lantern Workshop
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayCome and transform a simple paper lantern into an amazing sea creature! Choose from an octopus, angel fish, shark, dolphin or jellyfish and use colourful paints and collage materials to bring your creature to life. A small battery powered light will also be supplied to light up your sea creature at night, making it a [...]
Children’s Cycle-delic Spin Painting
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA 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, BroadwayA 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, BroadwayA 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 [...]
Teen Acrylics Workshop – collage, colour & rhythm
Lifford Hall Lower Green, BroadwayA relaxed teen acrylics workshop aimed at 12-17 year olds. Lots of creative fun as a group, learning how to use acrylic paint. You will be making an abstract acrylic painting on board and learning about how to use a limited palette, texture, colour and shape to compose and express ideas and to create tone and [...]
Stone Carving Workshop with Deborah Harrison
Broadway Village Green The Green, Broadway, WorcestershireCarve a simple relief carving on a tablet of beautiful Portland Stone, using your own or provided pre-prepared template. This workshop is a great introduction to stone carving, but equally engaging for the accomplished carver. You will be introduced to a range of tools used for carving and finishing stone, then allowed to work at [...]
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