The Living Art Show
The Living Art Show- Body Painting Festival is a creative and visual extravaganza, an event that combines a feast of magnificent body painted models alongside musicians and performance artistes.

Come and join us this eclectic blend of face and body painters artistes, models, creative’s and photographers at our 2025- Body painting festival Extravaganza- It takes place on the 22nd to 25th August at the Maui Waui Festival Elvedon Hall Thetford
Welcome to The Living Art Show our fabulous yearly body painting festival, which takes place on the August Bank Holiday Weekend @ the Maui Waui Festival
The Living Art Show Body Painting Festival 2025 weekend includes:
Face, body, and decollagtage paingtin extravagansa (Satuday 09:30-16:30)
Showcase main stage LIVE ONLINE WITH MAUI WAUI (Saturday 17:00 onwards)
Body painting competition (Sunday 12:00-15:00)
Opportunities to paint the public
A great time for all!
The Living Art Show Body Painting Festival 2025
The theme for this years Living Art Show Body painting Festival is “Legends”
If you’d like to join us for this years amazing show let us know! Or Follow the blue button link below to book
The show is open to all levels of make up artistes and students too….we are a friendly bunch so if you have not painted before, what’s stopping you!!!
Come and join the fun!
This event is for anyone that enjoys art, loves to paint, likes music and loves to have fun.
The Living Art Show Body Painting Festival 2025 weekend will include
- Saturday 9.30 till 4.30pm body painting and face and decolletage painting extravaganza
- Show case main stage (Live on line with Maui Waui) Sat Evening 5pm
- Sunday – Body paint competition 12-3pm
- There are also opportunities to paint the public
We look forward to another amazing festival
More information and fees below pics-
We wish to thanks all of our team including back stage organisation the models, painters, demonstrators, photographers and our fab show SPONSORS Paintopia, SNAZAROO and MAGIC BOX
Liz, Claire and the Living Art Show Team

This event is for anyone that enjoys art, likes music and loves to have fun.
For more information on the “The Living Art Show”
To enter the competition as a body painter or apply to model at the event or to come as photographer or to watch the show, email mail@follies.co.uk
Painters entry £70 open to all levels –includes three days camping
Early Bird Prices Still Available
Painters may paint individual or in pairs
Models £50 book as a model and you will enter the selection process, you will be added to the face book pages, you can then upload your images and availability and our fab painters will pick you from there. Any models not chosen will be entitled to a full refund of paid fees unless you choose to attend the weekend.
Guests £60
One day Saturday pass Models or painters £50
Children FOC names will need to be registered for entry
This is the total cost for you for one two or x3 days
This includes entry to the festival plus the living art show plus all of the festival events and camping is inclusive!
The buttons below are for the booking of the event.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/550012795373733/
https://www.facebook.com/livingartshow/
The Living Art Show- Check out the video of our 2017 show here.
2023 Images


















2018 Images






2017 – Glitter competition line up

2017 Body painting Catwalk show winners and line up


Aerial Trapeze – Model Haylee Mae Edwards
Artiste – Linda Baker



2014 Winners
2014 Prizes sponsored by Kryolan UK and Seventa Image

