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 [...]
David Curtis is one of the UK’s best-known painters, with a number of prestigious art awards. His work is widely exhibited and is also published as fine-art cards and prints. He is the author of the bestselling ‘Light and Mood in Watercolours’ and ‘Capturing the Moment in Oils’. We are delighted that David will be [...]
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 four professional artists as they capture a scene featuring models dressed in the attire of Sargent's era. Stroll through the [...]
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 four professional artists as they capture a scene featuring models dressed in the attire of Sargent’s era. Stroll through the [...]
Join our previous Artist in Residence, Nick Logan for this workshop for those new to Life Drawing. Nick is an enthusiastic and experienced tutor and you’ll be working from a live model as he guides you through a conceptual and simple six-step process for depicting the human body. Nick Logan acquired his BA (Hons) in [...]
artBEAT 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 marquees on the village green in this idyllic Cotswold village. Throughout the weekend the marquees house talented artists, printmakers, sculptors, jewellers, ceramicists, designer-makers and a host of traditional artisans demonstrating [...]
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, [...]
Apply to be part of the Broadway Arts Festival 6-15 June 2025 Are you a performer, band, speaker, theatre company, artist or creative workshop leader who would like to be part of the 2025 festival programme? Do you have an event idea or proposal for our 2025 festival? We are in the early stages of [...]
Approaches to abstraction: Exploring shape and colour “Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding.” Robert Genn If you’ve wanted to create more abstract work and are interested in exploring new approaches to contemporary landscape painting, then this workshop is just for you. Working with landscape artist Rachel Cronin you will [...]
Join Beth Watkins of Lagarto Studio Watercolours for an intermediate watercolour workshop exploring ways to capture light and reflection. Working from a photograph we will be capturing the light and reflections of a Waterscape. It could include the sky, a mountain range, reeds, the branch of a tree as all of these elements create their [...]
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