Join artist and explorer Mary-Anne Bartlett on her third Art Safari to Japan.

We travel to Japan during the ‘autumn-leaves-viewing’ months.  Colours range from brilliant yellow, to lime greens, to reds, oranges, pinks and magentas.  Moss gardens and chrysanthemums take on extra brilliance.  In many ways more colourful than the blossom of Spring at this time, Japan is also less crowded.

On this Art Safari adventure we explore beautiful areas of Japan, stopping to paint the temples and sketch the gardens of Kyoto, sweeping landscapes of the snow peaked valleys of the Japanese Alps, and curious snow monkeys bathing in hot springs. 

 The November light is amazing for painting Fuji, as shafts of light cross its volcanic skirts, and also for the rest of the country, it’s crisp, bright and extraordinarily colourful.

Tour cost: from £4784 per person sharing excl. flights

Single room supplement: £662 

Call 01394 382235 to book your place.

This Art Safari is packed full of visual treats and new experiences.  Artist and India traveller Maxine Relton will guide you through a landscape of romantic water palaces, imposing hilltop forts, ornately decorated temples, tribal villages, and flamboyant streets and markets.  She will take you off the beaten track and introduce you to people, artists and organisations that will give you a taste for the real spirit of this inspiring and vibrant country.  Along the way you will learn the exciting art of vivid, rapid sketching and create a sketchbook of wonderful memories.

The majority of our time is spent in small heritage hotels where you’ll experience a more authentic taste of Rajasthan.  These hotels combine modern comforts with old world charm and showcase the beautiful architectural and decorative features of these bygone palatial residences.  Often, you’ll be hosted by maharajas and maharanis!

Tour cost: from £3395 per person sharing (excl. flights)

Single room supplement: £1138

Internal flights from/to Mumbai £300 (not included)

Call 01394 382235 to book your place.

Artist and experienced India traveller Maxine Relton is returning to Tamil Nadu and Kerala for ‘The Silver Ring of South India’.  This tour takes us through the authentic heartland of undiscovered India, venturing off the beaten tourist trail…  

Tamil Nadu is one of the planet’s last classical civilisations, with sacred rituals, ancient literature, songs and dance, traditional customs and crafts that owe nothing to the modern world. We spend time in rarely visited Tamil villages and temples, sketching and engaging with local people.  In Kovalam we are hosted by the wonderful folk at SCAD (Social Change and Development), a Tamil charity very close to Maxine’s heart, SCAD works with all aspects of rural community life, supporting 450 schools.

In Kerala we travel through lush green landscapes, forests and spice gardens, drift serenely along the Alleppey backwaters on a traditional houseboat, sketching life on the riverbanks – people fishing, rinsing colourful laundry, walking to temples and working in the rice paddies. 

Tour cost: from £3870 per person sharing excl. flights

Single room supplement: £637 

Call 01394 382235 to book your place.

This is a slow-paced safari of ancient African landscapes filled with diverse and wonderful wildlife in some of Southern Africa’s more remote locations and best kept secrets…

Our 10-night journey starts in the wild north of Kruger National Park in the private Makuleke Concession, before following the path of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘great grey-green, greasy Limpopo’ inland to the Land of Giants in Botswana’s Northern Tuli Reserve.

We explore superb scenery; colossal baobabs and big skies, rocky outcrops, dramatic gorges, lush riverine forest, palm-fringed pans, and endless savanna plains.

The pages of our sketchbooks will be saturated with images of lime-green fever tree forests, quietly flowing rivers with lazy hippos, elephants and elephant shrews, richly marked nyala antelope, and with luck cheetah and lion!

We will stay in just two camps to minimise internal travel and spend as much time as we can painting.  Our lodges offer spectacular views and good old-fashioned African hospitality and comfort.

Tour cost: from £3445  per person sharing excl. flights

Single room supplement: £1094

Enquire now on 01394 382235 

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.

LAST CHANCE TO SECURE YOUR PLACE

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.