The Joy of Solo Travel The concept of solo travel often conjures up images of lone adventurers traversing vast landscapes or intrepid explorers embarking on daring expeditions. While these depictions hold a [...]

Our top painting destinations and how to get the best out of painting en plein air. Have you dreamed about painting abroad, but are not sure where to go and what [...]

Only 1 space available!! Over the years, between us, Si and I have done a number of trips to Morocco including a motorbike trip around Morocco for a month in 2018. We’ve nicknamed it [...]

Finally, the world feels like it opening up again. Each day, the travel between countries seems to be a little less restricted. And, the good news is that we can finally welcome all our lovely [...]

Here in France we are on a serious 'lock-down'. This means that we're housebound with trips out being limited to supermarkets and pharmacies. Light local exercise is permitted albeit with a printed statement and [...]

We all sometime wonder what it must be like to be in the limelight, how would we handle it? Our opportunity came along this summer when we got through the selection process to be filmed [...]

When one thinks about France, one of the first things to come to mind is the food. Cute little corner cafés, freshly baked French breads, the array of French cheeses; the fresh seasonal delights of [...]

January - and we're both busy planning dates for workshops and classes (Painting and Cooking) plus fine-tuning our plans for this years' Painting Holidays in France. At this time of year we're often on the [...]

One of the many positive aspects of setting up our painting holidays in France is the on-going research and exploration that we do to refine the itineraries for each of our holidays. We are very [...]

January 2018. Montagu, Western Cape, South Africa. We've been visiting Monica's family over Christmas which has been a new experience for me - my first 'hot' Christmas. Looking at the weather currently lashing Europe, [...]

Here at Painting in France, I have been teaching the intricacies of Watercolour Painting for many years. I've been happy applying washes, working wet into wet, wet onto dry - until a few weeks ago [...]

Painting holidays and workshops in the south of France. Here's a photographic montage of some of the highlights from both en plein air days and studio time throughout the year. As you can see from [...]

I've realised that I'm not averse to some winter sunshine, and there was plenty during our family visit to South Africa - Montagu, Western Cape  to be exact. While I was there, I was invited [...]