This workshop will allow participants to create their own mixed media painting inspired by the work of Sara Huxley, whose work is also featured on the cover of the festival programme! Sara will lead the workshop, showing how she creates her paintings by building up layers of texture and collage, using mainly acrylic paint, with [...]
This oil sketching workshop will be taking place in the grounds of Broadway Tower with far reaching views, and focuses on painting the landscape with oils and palette knife, led by renowned Cotswold artist Rupert Aker. We will work outside if the weather is fine and explore how to sketch quickly with a palette knife [...]
This oil sketching workshop will be taking place in the grounds of Broadway Tower with far reaching views, and focuses on painting the landscape with oils and palette knife, led by renowned Cotswold artist Rupert Aker. We will work outside if the weather is fine and explore how to sketch quickly with a palette knife [...]
Join us for a hands-on willow-weaving workshop to create your very own beautiful Giant Willow Bee! Using natural willow, you’ll learn how to weave and shape the bee’s body, add its distinctive wings and legs then create his antennae that bring this characterful sculpture to life. Your bee will be approx 35cm long, 70cm across [...]
Learn to dance the passionate Argentine Tango! Paul & Tracey Pritchard from ‘Dance at 8’ present an in depth Cuban Dance Workshop featuring Salsa and International Cuban Rumba. The Salsa is a popular and exciting latin dance, dating back to the 1940s, with a variety of easy to learn variations. After just one hour you [...]
Join Rachel for a hands-on workshop creating a beautiful, rustic lantern centrepiece using natural willow and pine cones. You’ll learn how to shape and secure the willow base, arrange and attach a variety of cones, to create a unique woodland-inspired design. What’s included: All willow, pine cones needed to create your centrepiece. Step-by-step guidance and [...]
During this studio-based workshop we’ll be looking at harbours and boats and how to capture them in a contemporary way. Claire will be working from a photograph to guide you through some of the layering techniques she uses in her work, which include painting, collage creation, cutting, gluing, tearing, scratching and spattering. Suitable for intermediate [...]
Learn about painting the light and capturing the essence while painting plein air in the stunning exclusive gardens of The Orchard Farm on the upper high street in Broadway. Haidee-Jo Summers is an internationally renowned plein air painter, Vice President of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and elected member of the Royal Society of [...]
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 [...]
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