Spend the day painting in the grounds and art room at Stanton Guildhouse with David Pilgrim ROI. Learn how to paint in a more direct and painterly way using gouache paints to achieve fresh and lively results. We will delve into some of the unique properties that this versatile medium has to offer and work [...]
Discover painting trees in acrylics using large, expressive brushstrokes, vibrant flashes of colour, while avoiding drawing every leaf. You will be shown how to create a more impactful, impressionistic painting by choosing a colour scheme, applying large blocks of paint at the start, using ‘negative shape’ techniques and understating details. You’ll also discover the unique [...]
Spend the day with Jenny Aitken learning how to achieve the illusion of light on the water. We will start with a tonal painting, followed by a full colour version. Jenny will begin the day with a short demo, followed by a colour demo just before lunch. She will provide notes and images, though participants [...]
Spend the day learning to paint portraits in Watercolour with award-winning watercolour artist Mark Entwisle. After a brief introduction Mark will do a short watercolour portrait demo, talking about the importance of really looking and painting what you see, being aware of the underlying structure of the skull, highlights and shadows, painting people who really [...]
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 [...]
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