On the free day of the Art Toscana Art Courses in Sicily, we take a boat from Castellammare del Golfo along the Zingaro nature Reserve stopping off for several dips in the sea. Entering the dark caves with lapping waves and looking up, you can see sleepy bats hanging from the stalagmites. Our Art Toscana
This picture of the salt pans on the west coast of Sicily is another one of our venues for our Art Toscana Painting Vacations in Sicily. The photo hasn’t caught the real colour of the water which has a pinkish hew due to the pink plankton which live there. The resident flamingos feed on the
This is the harbour view off Castellammare del Golfo, one of the painting venues for our Art Toscana Art holidays in Sicily. The name can be translated as ‘Sea Fortress on the Gulf’. Everywhere you look there is a spectacular view to be painted from the boats in the harbour, the fishermen loading and unloading
This is the path leading down to the beach through the Sicilian eucalyptus wood. Our guests at Art Toscana painting Holidays in Sicily often take a walk through the woods in the early morning for a quick dip in the sea. Even though there is a swimming pool at the hotel, the serious swimmers choose
This is the trunk of a eucalyptus tree in the eucalyptus wood at the end of the lane by the Petruso Resort where we stay with our Art Toscana Painting in Sicily groups. A short walk and you are looking at the sea on a beautiful secluded beach that stretches for miles.
This is the bark of the eucalyptus tree in the woodland near the Petruso Resort where we stay with our guests on our Art Toscana Art holidays in Sicily. A saunter through the woodland and you are on a beautiful secluded beach that stretches for miles.
This time next month we will be in Venice for our first 2024, Art Toscana art vacations in Italy. At Art Toscana painting holidays in Italy, our guests will go to the 2024 Venice Biennale and will paint on the Island of Burano.
This is one of my favourite salads and although it comes from a Persian cookery book, all of the ingredients are Italian; baby tomatoes, olives, red onions, pistachio nuts and pomegranate seeds. Even the pomegranate seeds, although not considered Italian, are from my two pomegranate trees in the garden. That sounds exotic, doesn’t it. The
Last weekend we went to Montecatini for the weekend , a spar town, on the way to Florence, where next year we will be running an Art Toscana, art course in Italy.This is a rather silly picture of me with a delicious red prawn starter, not a dish we serve at Art Toscana, painting holidays
Spring is here at Art Toscana, art vacations in Italy. It was 18°C today, several degrees higher than the normal temperature for this time of the year but a perfect temperature for painting in Italy. What a pretty picture this would make with the sun shining through the spring flowers.