Broadway Arts Festival 2026

About The Great Broadway Paint-Off 2026

Your chance to draw or paint the 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.

Prizes:

• Main Prize: £500 (cash) sponsored by Alastair & Julieanne McGrigor (Trustee)
• 2nd Place: An overnight stay with 3 course dinner, full English breakfast and a round of golf at Tewkesbury Park Hotel
• 3rd Place: £150 voucher for Jackson’s Art Supplies
• 4th Place: £150 voucher towards framing from E7 Framing
• 5th Place: A £100 voucher for Rosemary & Co Artist Brushes
• 6th Place: £50 voucher for Jackson’s Art Supplies
• Visitors’ Choice Prize (voted on by visitors to the free exhibition of entries at the end of the afternoon): A 3 night stay at Russell Court Cottage in the grounds of Russell House in Broadway (Sleeps 6) Note: the Visitors’ Choice Prize is shared with The Great Broadway Portrait Paint-Off

Judges in 2026 will include our Festival Artist in Residence, Claire Henley and Festival Ambassador Tushar Sabale who will walk the village to chat with the artists during the day.

NOTE: A separate Portrait Paint-Off will also be held at the Lifford Hall during the day for those who prefer painting people rather than en plein air!

How does it work?

• Buy your ticket through the website well in advance and before 15 May. Note: You can only buy a ticket for yourself, not multiples for friends.
• Turn up with your blank canvas and your kit at the gazebo on the village green in the centre of the village in the time slot you selected to check in and get your canvas stamped & numbered on the reverse.
• Spend the day creating your masterpiece at your chosen location in or around the village (you can paint up at Broadway Tower too).
• Get your work of art back to the Lifford Hall anytime from 2.00pm, but by 3.30pm at the very latest when the doors will close for judging.
• If you have used an easel, please leave it on your easel for display in the exhibition.
• If you would like to sell your work, have the price ready to provide to us when you hand it back in.
• The entries will then form a selling exhibition and be judged. Prize-winners will see a ribbon on their piece when the exhibition opens at 4.00pm.
• The selling exhibition is then open to the public for all to enjoy from 4.00pm to 5.00pm.
• The winner of the Visitors’ Choice Prize will be announced at 4.45pm
• Only artwork started and completed on the day will qualify.
• Artwork can be in any medium & any size, however we cannot accept photography or iPad art as a medium for a number of reasons.
• We process all artwork sales at the exhibition through our card machine and then transfer 90% of the sale price directly to your bank account in the following days. 10% of all sales are retained as commission to help cover the costs of running the competition. A red dot will appear on sold works.

This event will go ahead despite poor weather (no refunds) – so please dress appropriately!

Participants will need to bring their own paper, canvas and art supplies. These will not be provided.

You will have a choice of registration slot at the gazebo on the village green:

Early Birds: 8.30am to 9.30am 
Still Keen: 9.30am to 10.30am

Broadway Arts Festival accepts no responsibility for loss, damage or injury during the day.

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Tickets

Please see important booking information below.

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Booking information

Tickets prices:

£20.00 to £25.00

There will be 75 tickets available for this event and they need to be purchased in advance.

The first 25 tickets sold will be charged at £20.00, with all further tickets £25.00.

Dates & times:

Sunday 07 June 2026 at 8.30am

Running time:

8 hours 30 minutes

Location:

Broadway Village Green