Spend the day painting interiors of the beautiful Arts & Crafts Stanton Guildhouse with award-winning watercolour artist Mark Entwisle. After initial introductions Mark will do a short watercolour demo of an interior and will be talking about drawing and painting what you see, not what you know. Paying attention to light and tone, colour mixing, primary [...]
A solo show - for all the family! The comedy and slapstick legend and star of Gifford’s Circus, Cirque Berserk, Tweedys’ Massive Circus (one and two), The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Cheltenham Everyman pantomime is back and he’s coming to Broadway! In this one man, family show, Tweedy finds himself battling mischievous props in [...]
Paint en plein air with Maria Rose, member of the Royal Institute of Oil painters. Maria will introduce the fundamentals of outdoor ‘plein air’ painting in the charming setting of Stanton Guildhouse and Stanton Village. Maria will help you to simplify the process of working outdoors from life, paint within a shorter space of time, [...]
Using flowers as our inspiration, we’ll experiment with line, collage and mark-making, filling our handmade concertina sketchbook with loose and expressive drawings. This is a relaxed workshop aimed at beginners or people who haven’t picked up a paintbrush in a while ...and there’s definitely no right or wrong way of filling the pages of our [...]
Groove Station bring the dancefloor to Broadway Arts Festival with a high-energy live Disco Inferno set. Get ready to dance! Expect a packed night of disco classics, funky grooves and huge dancefloor favourites from across the decades. Groove Station are a professional live band specialising in feel-good party music, bringing together five experienced musicians for [...]
Vibrant Acrylic Portraits Discover portrait painting in Acrylics using large, expressive brushstrokes, vibrant flashes of colour and fuss-free drawing. The priority will be to reflect the essence of a character rather than produce a photographic likeness and to give your artwork a personality of its own. You will be shown how to begin with a [...]
How do you paint a masterpiece? In The Secrets of Painting, artist and broadcaster Lachlan Goudie seeks the answer to this question by exploring how twenty of the greatest paintings in human history were created, from a blank surface to the finishing brushstroke. Beginning at the dawn of civilization with prehistoric cave paintings and ending [...]
Join us in the historic Russell House Gardens in Broadway, famously painted by John Singer Sargent in his masterpiece Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose. This unique experience offers an hour-long time slot where you can observe 3 professional artists as they capture a scene featuring models dressed in the attire of Sargent's era. Stroll through the [...]
Do you love the TV series Portrait Artist of the Year? Then this is for you... Amateur and professional artists from around the UK will spend the day painting the portrait of one of our 'Broadway Legends' from our local community, competing for prizes. There will be approximately 4 artists per model, the identity of [...]
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 2027 will include our Festival Artist in Residence, Claire [...]
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