Our 2025 Art Competition is now open for entries! Open to any artist, in any medium including painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics & glass. We have increased the prize pot, added new prize categories and have new judges on the panel. Categories & Prizes: - Main prize (any medium): £1,000 – sponsored by Wychavon District [...]
Entries are now open for our annual open art competition, open to any artist, in any medium including (but not restricted to) painting, drawing, pastels, mixed media, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics & glass. Any artist from across the UK can enter, but we do have a separate prize for best entry from a local artist. We [...]
Our annual open art competition is open to any artist in any medium, professional & amateur. Artists’ work that is selected for the final judging stage forms an exclusive selling exhibition of 150 works at Theatrebarn in Bretforton (15 mins drive from Broadway) from Friday 26th September – Sunday 5th October 2024, open daily from [...]
Do you love the TV series Portrait Artist of the Year? Then this is for you... New for 2025! Running alongside our famous plein air competition, The Great Broadway Paint-Off, this year we will also have a portrait painting competition taking place inside the main marquee on the village green. Amateur and professional artists from [...]
We are pleased to announce that 'Jump' by artist Lynn Edward won the annual art competition Visitors'Choice prize of £500 worth of framing from Period Frames London and an Overnight stay for two with dinner at James Martin's Grill at The Lygon Arms in Broadway. Over 1,500 visitors came through our doors during the [...]
2024 OPEN ART COMPETITION – Winners & Highly Commended We had a fantastic response with 580 entries from across the UK, thank you to all the artists who entered. The standard was exceptionally high. We are most grateful to our judges who did a brilliant job. A huge thank you to our prize sponsors, [...]
This is the afternoon session for artists handing in artwork for the exhibition at Theatrebarn in Bretforton. Please hand in at the main entrance between 1 – 4:30pm You don’t need to print or bring your ticket. Simply provide your name on arrival. The exhibition area won't be open to the artists as we will [...]
This is the morning session for artists handing in artwork for the exhibition at Theatrebarn in Bretforton. Please hand in at the main entrance between 10:00am – 12:30pm You don’t need to print or bring your ticket. Simply provide your name on arrival. The exhibition area won't be open to the artists as we will [...]
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 2025 will be Festival Ambassador, Haidee-Jo Summers VPROI RSMA, [...]
We are delighted to announce that Tush Sabale has agreed be our guest main prize judge for our 2024 open art competition alongside Malcolm Rogers, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Tushar Sabale is an award winning Indian born, British artist based in London. He mainly paints from life and [...]
As an Arts charity we would very much appreciate a donation to help us fund our outreach programmes with local schools and Arts bursaries for local university students - thank you
