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Broadway Arts Festival

broadway-arts-festival-carnationlow-resBroadway Arts Festival is taking shape nicely for next year and looks to be another of those events where a Cotswold community creates an important cultural event by drawing on local passion and long term historical connections. 

Broadway is a gem of a Cotswold village, very well known to US visitors and this Festival will do more to strengthen the link.  The American painter John Singer Sargent created his masterpiece ’Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’ whilst staying in Broadway - having fled Paris where his painting of ’Madame X’, had scandalised the art world.

2010’s Festival will be between the 11-20th of June and the organisers have already secured loan from the Tate of important studies for the picture.

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Guild Of Craftsmen Summer Show

pwcoverimageThe Painswick Summer Show is a selling exhibition across a range of media such as   jewellery and furniture.  It runs 1-31 August with demos at weekends.

Saturday 1 August
Toff Milway – salt glaze potter
Paul Spriggs – furniture maker

Saturday 8 August
Anne Rogers – feltmaker
Sarah Pearson Cooke – Shibori textiles

Saturday 15 August
Richard Bossons and Rita Dawe – stonecarvers

Saturday 29 August
Susan Early – basketmaker – “Willow World”
Val Michael – leatherworker

Locals in the know head for the Summer Show sharpish as the best work sells first. For more details click here. Painswick is a beautiful Cotswold village near Stroud, with several good pubs and places for lunch. The Rococo Gardens are just up the road.

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Slimbridge Wetland Centre’s Summer Exhibition

slimbridgeSlimbridge Wetland Centre is usually associated with outdoor views over the Severn Estuary, flights of geese and swans – a firm favourite with families.

The recently added visitor centre includes a gallery and is a under-

appreciated space for art exhibitions. Between May 3rd and June 30th, the theme will be  ‘At Home with Nature’ with Emma Ball, Libby Edmonson, Martin Cheek and Lisa Katzenstein bringing a mix of mosaic, ceramics, acrylics and watercolours, with work inspired by wildlife and landscapes.

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