En Plein Air Painting in Watercolour with Bobby Open

2024-11-21T10:12:35+00:00November 21st, 2024||

An exciting opportunity to paint in a beautiful private garden on the Upper High Street in Broadway.  True to its name, The Hill is a classic Cotswold stone house nestled in a hillside garden with topiary, mature trees and summerhouses, and fabulous views to Bredon Hill and the Malverns.  Participants will be painting outdoors with [...]

An Introduction to Botanical Art with RHS Gold Medalist Ros Franklin

2025-01-14T14:15:43+00:00November 17th, 2024||

Ros will take you through a step-by-step approach to the methods used in this traditional art form. You will be shown how to: measure your subject and draw it accurately create three-dimensional form using tonal shading use of watercolours to depict your chosen subject accurately in colour. You will take away enough knowledge to complete [...]

artBEAT – The opening weekend of Broadway Arts Festival

2024-10-24T11:33:56+01:00October 24th, 2024|, , , |

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 [...]

2 Day Watercolour Masterclass with Hazel Soan: Figures & Flowers

2024-01-15T12:29:37+00:00January 12th, 2024||

This 2 day masterclass explores watercolour’s wet into wet blending technique with renowned artist Hazel Soan. The workshop is geared to an intermediary level of skill but both an adventurous beginner and a seasoned professional would doubtless enjoy the experience as watercolour reveals its wonders! We will use two different subjects, figures and flowers, both [...]

Capturing Light & Reflection in Watercolours Workshop with Beth Watkins

2024-01-19T09:21:19+00:00November 8th, 2023|, , |

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 [...]

Mystery Masterpiece Auction 2024

2024-02-21T10:44:55+00:00September 4th, 2023||

Broadway Arts Festival is giving the public the chance to snap up original artwork by internationally renowned and emerging artists for as little as £25! Showcasing British painters, illustrators, printmakers and photographers while helping to raise funds for the Broadway Arts Festival in 2025, school outreach programmes and local student arts bursaries.  Maybe you’ll spot [...]

Getting Going in Watercolours Workshop

2023-09-01T12:09:29+01:00August 25th, 2023|, |

This 1 day workshop offers a foundation in watercolour painting. You will start by practicing the basic techniques and the most important skills required in using the medium, which will help you produce a small number of finished paintings by the end of the day. The subject matter will be varied to include landscapes, seascapes, and [...]

Art Competition Exhibition of Finalists

2023-09-01T11:39:44+01:00July 26th, 2023|, , , , |

Our annual open art competition is open to any artist, in any medium including painting, sculpture, drawing, textiles, jewellery, pastels, ceramics & printmaking. Artists’ work that was selected for the final judging stage will form an exclusive selling exhibition of 150 works at Theatrebarn in Bretforton (15 mins drive from Broadway) from Friday 6th - [...]

2023 Open Art Competition

2023-07-26T13:43:27+01:00July 26th, 2023|, , , , |

Our 2023 open art competition is now open for entries! Prizes include: – Main prize £1000 (any medium) sponsored by  Wychavon District Council – Painting in Oils or Acrylics Prize £500 sponsored by Priory Gallery – Watercolour Prize £500 sponsored by John Noott (Founders Prize) – Sculpture/3D Prize £500 sponsored by Jason & Susan Lewis [...]

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