Cotswolds
The Broadway Colony Room Broadway Museum & Art Gallery
Broadway Museum & Art Gallery 65 High Street, Broadway, GBA permanent exhibition about the world-famous Broadway Colony of renowned artists, writers, musicians and actors, most notably John Singer Sargent, (has now been permanently) installed in a dedicated room of the Broadway Museum and Art Gallery on behalf of the Broadway Arts Festival. This important piece of Broadway heritage recounts the interestingly interwoven lives of [...]
“Reflection” Open Art Competition & Selling Exhibition
Little Buckland Gallery Little Buckland, BroadwayThe 2018 Competition: “Reflection” The theme for the 2018 competition was ‘Reflection’. The competition was open to any artist, in any medium including photography, sculpture, film, ceramics and design makers. Thank you to everyone who entered, we had a record-breaking 925 entries from around the globe! 200 of the entries are being shown in a prestigious [...]
Inspiring the Next Generation: Performance with Tom Redmond
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayRadio 3 broadcaster, presenter, horn player and animateur, Tom Redmond, will be working with local primary school children in Broadway towards this performance that is open to all. Recent appearances include devising and presenting My Great Orchestral Adventure at the Albert Hall, and his innovative and motivational approach is guaranteed to inspire the next generation [...]
Blues Hand me Downs: Alex Voysey & friends
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayJoin virtuosic guitarist Alex Voysey through a history of the blues. Starting with the classic rock n’ roll hits of Chuck Berry through BB King and Stevie Ray Vaughan to more contemporary favourites such as John Mayer and Lady Antebellum, and many more in between. This show covers them all in a high energy performance [...]
Family Fun Arts & Crafts Session with ArtBase & The Colourclub and Mural Painting with Antonia Black
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayPart of our Family Day of kid friendly events on June 16th An opportunity to come and have creative fun with your kids! Enjoy some highly creative art workshops to stimulate and inspire the inner artist in you and your child. ArtBase & The Colourclub's highly experienced artists will guide you through a imaginative experience [...]
Children’s Acro-Balance Workshop with Tristan Glover
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayTristan has spent the last 25 years touring the world with variety act ‘The Chipolatas’ creating magical & mindful musical circus shows. He also runs children’s physical performance workshops with community groups, developing initiative and co-operation and promoting positive self-image and confidence for participants. Tristan will be hosting come-and-have- a-go acro-balance and human pyramid building [...]
Talk & Demonstration by Adebanji Alade “The Addictive Sketcher” – BBC The One Show
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomSee BBC One Show Artist in Residence Adebanji Alade, Vice President of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and "Addictive Sketcher" paint an urban landscape in Acrylic abc while talking about his inspirational life as an artist. This 2.5 hour talk and demo is a chance to learn how Adebanji captures people and places and [...]
Exploring Edward Lear – a musical show by Robin Smith
The Guildhouse Stanton Stanton, United KingdomIn this musical show curated for the festival, composer, pianist and arranger Robin Smith explores Lear’s life through his poems with newly commissioned music inspired by his fascination with his story, alongside a display of reimagined illustrations by artist Sallie Taylor and narration by Oliver Taylor. Edward Lear was a man delighted by words and [...]
Watercolour with Impact – Demonstration by Brian Smith
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomThe simplicity of pigment, paper and water offers an enormous variation for the artist to use to capture the atmosphere and mood of your chosen subject. On this occasion renowned watercolour artist Brian Smith will produce a busy street scene indicating Buildings, People, Structure and Narrative with explanation of all the issues he will encounter [...]
Gordon Russell: A Champion of Design
The Lygon ArmsVerity Elson, Director of the Gordon Russell Design Museum in Broadway, explores the life and work of one of the most important names in British furniture design. The remarkable story of Gordon Russell and his company spans Arts and Crafts cabinetmaking, Modernism, The Festival of Britain, and beyond. Featuring images from the museum’s unique and [...]
Quilts: From Utility to Art by Linda Seward
The Lygon ArmsThis talk traces the development of the quilt, from its origin as a utilitarian item to its rightful place in the world of art. Learn about the three traditional types of quilt, then discover how these styles have evolved into textile art. The talk features antique quilts as well as the exciting work of over [...]
Beets & Pieces The Crista Trio: Ashok Gupta, Ben & David Powell
St. Michael & All Angels' Church Church Street, BroadwayBeethoven’s final and heroic Archduke Piano Trio forms the centrepiece of this concert in celebration of his 250th anniversary. Performed by Ashok Gupta and friends of the Festival Ben and David Powell as the Crista Trio, the programme also includes rarely heard arrangements of Beethoven’s famous overture Egmont and Chabrier’s orchestral masterpiece Espana, along with [...]
Instant printmaking workshop
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayInstant 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 [...]
Drawn from Life: The Extraordinary Art & Life of Augustus John by David Boyd Haycock
The Lygon ArmsAugustus John is one of the great enigmas of twentieth-century art. Widely acknowledged in the early 1900s as one of the most talented and promising young British artists, his achievements are now largely overlooked. This talk will explore his extraordinary rise and fall, from his early success before the First World War, to his slow [...]
Pot Throw & Decorate
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayThe 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 [...]
Pot Throw & Decorate
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayThe 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 [...]
Children’s After School Pot Throw Hour
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayGive your youngster the experience of using a potter's wheel to throw a pot of their very own in this ceramics after school hour with Honeybourne Pottery. There will be a demonstration on how to throw a pot on the potter’s wheel & decorate it using coloured slips. There will be lots of support and [...]
Wire Bird Sculpture Workshop with Rachel Higgins
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayRenowned 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 [...]
Seeing Sound – the colour of music in the 20th Century
Broadway Museum & Art Gallery 65 High Street, Broadway, GBThe connection between colour and music goes back to Aristotle, and composers have conceived music as colour ever since. Using piano demonstrations and a trove of audio excerpts, Jonathan James will illustrate how music - keys, tonalities, chords and tone - can be 'seen' and how colour, for some late Romantics and early modernists, became [...]
Landscape Fragments: experiments with texture in clay
Little Buckland Gallery Little Buckland, BroadwayAn evening workshop with Hilary LaForce at Little Buckland Gallery on the outskirts of Broadway. Working with porcelain this evening workshop will explore the possibilities for working with pattern and texture in clay. Using Hilary’s ‘Fragile Landscape’ pots as an inspiration we will create two dimensional but layered pieces. Hilary LaForce makes one-off ceramic pieces [...]
Making Artists Books – a taster session
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayA taster session with Patricia Henry and Stroud Artists Books Participants will be shown three types of blank book structures to make: one stitched, one single page and one folded and will be provided with a starter pack to reproduce these at home. Participants who also attend the printmaking workshop, or who have done so [...]
Developing Sketchbooks with Nature as Artist with Julie Leach
Little Buckland Gallery Little Buckland, BroadwayA 2 day workshop for participants of any experience to relax and let nature take the creative strain. Working with printmaker Julie Leach, who collaborates with nature to make work, participants will engage outdoors as hunters and gatherers of nature’s own marks. Participants will use a broad range of print techniques to collect, curate and [...]
50 Years of the National Portrait Gallery
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomA conversation between Sir Roy Strong, Director 1959-1973, and Nicholas Cullinan, Director since 2015. The collections of the National Portrait Gallery provide a fascinating commentary on British history and culture with images from Henry VIII to Judy Dench, addressing questions of identity and achievement and promoting engagement with portraiture in all media. In this lively [...]
Mural-Making with Antonia Black
Marquee on the village green Lower Green, BroadwayJoin us in the marquee on the village green for a free drop-in mural-making family friendly art workshop with our wonderful Artist in Residence Antonia Black! No booking required and all ages and generations welcome This is a free family event in the lead up to our big family theatre event in the afternoon There [...]
Relief Sculpture with Neil Wood
The Lifford Parlour Lifford Hall, BroadwayRelief Sculpture is significant in the world of art, from ancient times to the present day and continues as a means of creative expression. This workshop will equip you with the skills and knowledge to create your own cast relief artworks- whether something from nature to something more geometric or abstract. Join experienced teacher and [...]
The 2021 Broadway Arts Festival Open Art Competition
Bretforton Theatrebarn Bretforton Grange, Bretforton, Worcestershire, United KingdomOur “all new” open art competition is open to any artist, in any medium including painting, photography, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, printmaking and film. We have new categories, new prizes, new sponsors, new judges and a new exhibition venue! Artists’ work that is selected for the final judging stage will be exhibited in an exclusive selling [...]
Improve your Oil Painting Techniques with Andrew Field
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomJoin Andrew Field, contestant on Sky Arts “Landscape Artist of the Year”, to develop a repertoire of techniques and processes to improve your confidence and understanding of how to manipulate paint, using a variety of painting mediums. A professional local artist with over 20 years experience of teaching, he has exhibited at The Royal Society [...]
artBEAT – The opening weekend of Broadway Arts Festival
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. Entry to the exhibitor marquee is free to the public! Throughout the weekend the marquee will house talented artists, [...]
Muse, Morph, Create – an exhibition by Couture Shoemaker Caroline Groves & Taxidermist John Burton
Farncombe House Farncombe Estate, Broadway, Worcestershire, United KingdomA riot of colour and a rare insight into the creative possibilities that arise from unusual collaborations. Bespoke Couture Shoemaker Caroline Groves joins forces with Taxidermist, Naturalist and Collector John Burton for a curated exhibition of their work. Embark on a visual journey through two crafts featuring craftsmen who insist on the integrity of natural [...]
The Broadway Arts Festival Open Art Competition Selling Exhibition 2021
Bretforton Theatrebarn Bretforton Grange, Bretforton, Worcestershire, United KingdomCome along to see the 200 finalists from our 2021 open art competition at our new exhibition venue, Bretforton Theatrebarn, many of which are available to purchase. Open daily from 12 noon to 4pm from Friday 4th June to Sunday 13th June - entry is free and no need to book Please note: Sadly, there [...]
Portrait Drawing Workshop with Nick Logan in Charcoal & Sanguine
Lifford Hall Lower Green, Broadway, United KingdomWorking 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. Were you inspired by Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year? Fancy learning how to do this yourself then join Nick Logan! Suitable for all [...]
Wildlife Drawing workshop with David Skidmore
The Lifford Parlour Lifford Hall, BroadwayUsing graphite pencil, on hot press paper, with references supplied, we will work through initial drawing techniques, building tones to give a 3 dimensional feel, learning the importance of contrast between dark and light. Finally we will look at the details that finish off the piece. Have fun and work at a comfortable pace, suitable [...]
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