Join artist Karen Pearson on her first Art Safari to New Zealand.  Karen travelled to New Zealand in 2018 to prepare for this tour, and she is looking forward to sharing her favourite sketching locations.

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Spectacular scenery awaits!  We explore North Island and South Island, flying into cosmopolitan Auckland towards the end of the New Zealand summer, a temperate time of year for painting outdoors.  Our Kiwi naturalist guide will work alongside Karen, seeking out wildlife opportunities and taking us to stunning viewpoints for sweeping landscapes, forests and mountains, huge Redwood Trees and towering black tree-ferns, lakes and waterfalls, seascapes dotted with Island chains, and secluded coves with sugary white sand…. 

This Art Safari starts in Auckland and finishes in Christchurch.

Tour cost: from £5587 per person sharing excl. international flights (internal flight Auckland to Queenstown is included). 

Single room supplement: £674  Call 01394 382235 to book your place.

Join Alison Street for a fun-filled week painting wildlife in one of Africa’s top national parks.

We visit South Luangwa National Park at a cooler time of year, when the bush has been rejuvenated from recent rains and landscapes are flourishing with greens.  It’s a dramatic and beautiful season; elephants glide through the tall grasses like ships, big cats stick to the roads to avoid getting their feet wet, impala rams leap and snort to defend their territories, and pelicans, spoonbills and storks are busy fishing in the lagoons.

Alison loves vibrant colours and techniques; some of her more unusual methods include working with everyday items like bleach, clingfilm, salt, coffee, and tea. So, watch out – your gin and tonics may be repurposed!

Whatever your level of artistic skill, the combination of art and wildlife is unbelievably exciting, challenging and great fun.  Even if you have never picked up a pencil in your life (!), it matters not, Alison really enjoys teaching beginners.

Tour cost: from £2156  per person sharing excl. flights

Single room supplement: £304

Joining point: Mfuwe Airport, Zambia

Enquire now on 01394 382235 

When Darwin took this voyage it shaped his theories of evolution through natural selection. We will see and sketch many of the species he studied, which survive in wonderful and diverse profusion on the unique Galapagos archipelago.

Our Island hopping itinerary is full of variation and wonder, white sandy beaches, volcanoes, cliffs, lagoons, mangrove forests, coral reefs, unique wildlife and sea life.  Our sketchbooks will fill with images of sea lions, great blue herons, lava gulls, lava herons, flamingos, sea turtles, Giant tortoises, marine and land iguanas, pelicans, lava lizards, Galapagos hawks and mockingbirds.  We are visiting at a time of year when you can see male blue footed booby parents perform their comic high stepping greeting as they return to their nest of one or two chicks covered in soft white down, and huge waved Albatross incubating their single egg.

The Coral II is our floating art studio, with its friendly crew and delicious cuisine and comfy cabins.  Every day holds new fascination with the diversity of the Island landscapes we visit, the dazzling underwater world and starry ocean skies…

Tour cost from £6880 per person sharing including internal flights 

Excludes international flights

Joining point: Quito, Ecuador

Enquire now on 01394 382235 

This new Art Safari explores the spectacular Pembrokeshire coastline with its dramatic cliffs, vast expanses of remote sandy beaches, winding estuaries and tranquil towns and villages.    

The format for this tour is creating a sketchbook diary as you go; working fast and loose in pencil, pen and wash, experimenting with creative ways to record a colourful visual keepsake of your trip and gather inspiration for future paintings.

Out and about, sketching and painting en plein air, we will spend time exploring headlands and bays along the coast path, St Davids Cathedral, Carew Castle, and the colourful harbours of Solva and Tenby.  There is also the option to take a boat trip to Skomer Island, a sanctuary for seabirds and seals. 

Suitable for artists of all abilities.

Tour Cost:                 from £1317 per person (including VAT)

Single room supplement:  £150

Our price includes accommodation with breakfast, dinners, art tuition, and excursions as detailed on the itinerary

Enquire now on 01394 382235 

Join artist Shelly Perkins for springtime painting outdoors in the wild Alpujarra region of Andalusia, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.  

This is a lively creative getaway in pure mountain air, with the option to hike with Shelly back along marked trails from nearby painting locations, while your art kit is transported for you. We love this location, it is a peaceful haven for nature lovers which feels wonderfully untamed.  Sketch and paint to birdsong, the air is heavy with the scent of wild herbs.

We spend a day in bustling Granada, painting views of the Alhambra Palace complex and exploring the Moorish quarter with our sketchbooks.  Shelly will tutor with demonstrations and some one-to-one tuition time

Our simple and stylish accommodation is in a small white-washed village, with an emphasis on good food – most of the ingredients are grown in our hosts organic Finca. With sweeping views to the distant Mediterranean Sea, we hope you will be treated to some spectacular sunsets and dazzling starry nights. 

We are based in the mountains and a reasonable level of fitness is required.  

Tour cost: from £1456 per person sharing excl. flights

Single room supplement: £330

Call 01394 382235 to book your place.

The joining point for this tour is Malaga Airport for our group minibus transfer to Mairena.

If you prefer to fly to a different airport we can arrange individual transfers (not included).