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.
Now that our first week in Sicily is fully booked we will be organising our October boat trip from Livorno to Palermo. What an exciting trip that is. We arrive in Livorno early evening and as we sail along the Mediterranean coastline in twilight we can watch the enormous sunset on the horizon. We arrive
This is one of the many moods portrayed by the mountain viewed from the bedroom windows at Art Toscana, art holidays in Italy. It’s twilight when the falling sun illuminates the red sky leaving the mountain in darkness.
This is the first year I can remember without any snow at Art Toscana painting vacations in Italy. However, we haven’t been deprived of rain and this week there is some snow on the Apuane Alps which you can see from Art Toscana, painting holidays in Italy. The little babbling brook, where in the summer,
What a strange Spring! It’s February. The daffodils are in bloom but the snowdrops are lingering-on in sweet splendour, while the hellebores, which decorate the garden in January, have only just decided to wake up. At Art Toscana, painting holidays in Italy, set in the unique environment of the Garfagnana, there are always strange surprises.
I took this photo on New Years Day in the square of Saint Michael in Lucca (La Piazza di San Michele), a blue projection of stars and giant snowflakes falling on the Church of San Michele. On the free day of our Art Toscana painting holidays in Italy, most of our guests go to Lucca