The festival opens with the celebrated Art Couture Painswick event. The famous churchyard will host the Live@ACP! Music Night on the evening of 14 July, followed by the main event on Sunday 15 July featuring fabulous wearable works of art on parade around the village.

For the thespians amongst us,The Painswick Players will be treading the boards with their summer production 'Last Tango in Painswick’ and The Oliver Troupe will celebrate the 200 year anniversary of Dickens’ birth with words from ‘Oliver Twist’ and music from the acclaimed musical, ‘Oliver!’

During August the Rococo Garden will stage its third annual Art in The Garden Exhibition, organised separately from the Painswick Festival it is an award winning art exhibition attracting many renowned artists.

The Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen have been holding their annual exhibition in the town
since 1937. This year's show at the Painswick Centre from 4-26 August will include work by nationally recognised designer makers as well as up-and-coming new members.

Local artists, both amateur and professional,will be holding individual and group exhibitions throughout the festival, and theArtist Studios in the Painswick Centre will be open every Wednesday – Sunday in August. Newman Fine Artwill also be opening their doors for an exclusive exhibition on Victorian Watercolours.

The Arts Festival will culminate with a Bank Holiday weekend Art Trail enabling you to visit the studios and homes ofover a dozenartists working in the village.

Painswick itself is a work of art, hewn by generations of Cotswold stonemasons, so take your time to enjoy the town and all it has to offer. We would like to especially thank Rococo
Garden, Moulton Haus and The Falcon Inno f Painswick, Creative Picture Framing of Cirencester, together with all the participating artists, for their generous support of this publication.

We hope you enjoy your visit.

Rupert Aker and Jackie Herbert Painswick Arts Festival

Liability: The organisers of the Painswick Arts Festival cannot accept any liability for any damage, injury, or loss sustained by any member of the public visiting any of the events or exhibitions.