No, It isn’t Barga. It was taken in London at King’s Boulevard. So similar to Barga at Christmas time and what a fabulous scene for our guests at Art Toscana Painting Vacations in Italy!! If I was a painter at Art Toscana Art Holidays in Italy I would find this scene so inspiring.
Here are our Art Toscana Art Courses in Italy guests on the last day of one of the September courses listening to Chris summarising the week and admiring the marvellous paintings they have produce.
When I take the dog for a walk on Sunday mornings through the woods from Catagnana to Barga suddenly through a gap in the trees, there they are, the Apuan Alps stoically making their statement of beauty and wonder. Beauty and wonder is what our guests at Art Toscana Art Vacations in Italy say when
Unfortunately our guests at Art Toscana Painting Holidays in Italy don’t experience this beautiful sight of the old chicken coops and chestnut trees in Autumn. When our guests at Art Toscana Art Holidays in Italy step outside the artist’s studio the trees are heavy, thick and green with a canopy of baby green chestnut husks.
Here are two pheasants on the track going up to Val di Pozza, home of Art Toscana Painting Holidays in Italy. I know our painting guests would love to see them when they are here on their Art Toscana Art Vacation in Italy. Maybe not if they come from the UK as pheasants are not
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.
On the Apennine side of the Garfagnana and Mid-Serchio Valley, at an altitude of 1,525 metres, lies the village of San Pellegrino Alpe, the highest village in the Aapennine mountains, once a stronghold for the territories defence system. It’s there, in Il Santaurio di San Pellegrino, a sanctuary for pilgrims who came to pay homage