Category Archives: Painting Holiday In Italy

Well what a wonderfull week we have just spent painting sunflowers in their fields. We were very lucky to have such perfect fields of flowers which allowed us to create some lovely studies in watercoloour, chalks and acrylics. This week i was joined by Griff who travelled with Britta from Germany, then there was Anne…

A selection of photographs of happy guests at The Retreat during their art workshop painting holidays with us in August. To book your next painting holiday at The Retreat contact us now.

A selection of sunflower compositions taken from fields surrounding the Le Marche Retreat today!   To book your next painting holiday contact us now.

After a great week of painting we finished off with a trip to Macerata staying at a wonderfull 3* hotel as part of our package organised by the Retreat. We enjoyed a delicious meal at Macerata's finest restaurant all included in the trip. Then just before nine we took our seats at the world famous…

After a flying start to this week the group painted with a certain gusto which I attribute to inspiration from Gullio Gabrielli and in some part to the splendid food and drink that this region boasts, prepared by our in house culinary talent Jana! She even suprised us with some delicious lavender muffins! They were…

One of Italy's most beautiful squares Piazza Arringa in the Roma city of Ascoli Piceno is a popular spot for our painters. This June group including Maria-Luisa (Chile), Bill (Belgium), Clara (Singapore), Brian & Alison (New Zealand), Maureen and Patricia (Australia) were a truly international group who enjoyed the opportunity to spend the day improving…

Alistair mixing colours... Sylvia enjoying working her way through to the foreground... Sue, laying in background tones of distant hills... Jan, making good use of wax resist Jan and Mary...in the zone! One of Mary's paintings! Just taking some time out and thought I would post some more photo's from last weeks course.

The Place- Monte Falcone. The artists... Alla-prima paintings by John and Jan .

Sue painting! " in-the-zone!" Alistair and Sylvia with Sue... Me painting view from Monte Falcone! Jan takes a snap of "alla-prima" artists working at -"Monte-Falcone". This is one of my chosen locations for the Italian Landscape painting course. It is off the beaten track- with a small cafe serving ice cold beer nearby! You will…