The 2025 Art Toscana painting Holidays in Italy was a particularly successful season with many returning guests and many of our first-time painters booking for next year. Surprisingly, our 2026 Art Toscana painting Holidays in Sicily is now fully booked and 2027 in Sicily is booking up fast. We still have availability for our 2026
This is the brook that runs under the little bridge at the end of the track to our house. It’s such a pretty welcome for our guests arriving on their Art Toscana Art Course in Tuscany and helps to distract them from the bumpy ride up to the house. Usually, there is at least one
Georgie has now had his first season at Art Toscana Painting Courses in Italy. He loves the guests, and they love him. Who couldn’t love Georgie?
Yes, I am obsessed with this mountain especially in the morning when I open the shutters and am faced with its beauty. Always such a joyous start to the day. The mountain was the main reason I fell in love with Val di Pozza. It was some time after that we decided to run our
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
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
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.
When we go to Florence at Christmas time it seems like a different town. We are not there to run our art vacations in Italy, that’s in April, when the hills are covered in apple blossom and the spring sun glows yellow across the river Arno. We go there every December to celebrate our wedding