2010 Broadway Arts Festival
Broadway will be hosted its first Arts Festival in June 2010. The 2010 Festival celebrated the work of the American painter John Singer Sargent RA and was dedicated to one of Sargent's most famous paintings Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, which he painted in a garden in Broadway in the mid-1880s.
Sargent lived in Broadway for a number of years during which time he stayed with the 'Broadway Colony' of artists who included Francis Davis Millet, Edward Austin Abbey, Edmund Gosse, Frederick Barnard and Alfred Parsons.
The 2010 Arts Festival took place in and around Broadway from Friday 11th June 2010 until Sunday 20th June 2010 and included a series of art exhibitions including an Exhibition of the work of John Singer Sargent RA, talks on Sargent's work, theatre, concerts, a flower festival at St Michael and All Angels' Church (for St Michael's Flower Festival Programme click here), walks and tours of the houses in the village where Sargent lived and painted.
During the Festival there was an exhibition of Sargent's work in one of the art galleries in the village. For the 2010 Programme of Events click here.
Click here for an article, by Debbie Williamson, published in July's Cotswold Syle Magazine on the 2010 Festival and John Singer Sargent RA and the Broadway Colony.
The next Broadway Arts Festival will be held between 8th and 17th June 2012 and will also feature the life and work of Alfred Parsons RA, watercolourist and garden designer.
