Painting Holidays
From the tranquil harbour of Castelsardo to the quaint hilltop village of Monteleone RoccaDoria, the rugged drama of the cliffs of Capo Caccia with spectacular views of the sea, the peaceful mountain of Monte Minerva, or the ancient ruins of Nuraghe Palmavera… Sardinia offers a wealth of subject matter for any professional or aspiring artist.
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Now in our 3rd successful year, we have five exciting new tutors to bring you, including Wendy Jelbert, Keith Fenwick, David Coupe, Carole Massey and Kate Stenhouse. At BellaSardinia, we pride ourselves on service with a personal touch. Maria is our local Sardinian who has an extensive knowledge of her beautiful island and offers you a wonderful opportunity to learn about Sardinia from a very knowledgeable and completely fluent English-speaking host.
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Our painting holidays are carefully tailored to suit artists of all levels of ability, from beginner to expert, working in a variety of painting mediums, including pencil, pen and ink, watercolour, pastel, acrylic and oil. |
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On all our holidays, tutoring is offered on an individual basis, sensitive to ability and experience. Our tutors are vastly experienced in tutoring beginners and are attentive to all our guests' individual artistic needs. They work closely with them to help them develop their skills so visible progress can be achieved within the week. With seven different tutors, two locations and a range of dates, deciding on the ideal holiday for you may take a little time!
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We select our hotels based on comfort, location, food and charm with en-suite facilities. All our meals are taken as a group and we are served traditional local home cooking which is prepared daily using only the finest, freshest local ingredients and with what is in season. The wine is plentiful and is the perfect accompaniment to the local cuisine. Read an independent Trip Advisor review of Hotel Funtanarena, one of our chosen hotels, please click here... |
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Sardinia is especially beautiful in autumn and spring, when the island is less crowded, is truly stunning and is still blessed with good weather with the average daily temperatures between 20-25°C and with 7-11 hours of daily sunshine. We do our best to pick the best weeks for painting, avoiding the hottest summer months when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, the light is completely flat and there are no shadows to create form.
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However, despite all the best planning in the world we do sometimes get the occasional wet day and for this reason all our locations have covered facilities in which we can work and thus ensure everyday is a productive painting day!
Our hassle-free, all inclusive land packages include all meals, including wine and water with dinner, accommodation, painting tuition, land transportation, entrance fees (to sites included in the itinerary), and transfers to and from Alghero airport or Alghero town on arrival and departure days. Simply put, leave the arrangements to us so that you can spend more time enjoying yourself!
Our many repeat guests and the high marks we score on our feedback forms tell us that we consistently deliver high calibre holidays at a great value for money prices. But don’t just take our word for it… see for yourself what our guests have been saying about us, please click here... |
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Many thanks for all your hard work to make my week in Sardinia so enjoyable. I really had a great time, learnt a lot, gained a lot of confidence that I can become (with a lot more practice) a reasonable artist, and made some new friends who I hope to meet again on a future painting holiday. It really was a holiday that ended far too soon, so mille grazie once again.
Buona fortuna with all your future projects.
Guest on Robert Newcombe painting holiday - Sept 2007 |
Our Dates:
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Tutor |
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| 10 May – 17 May 2008 |
Monte Minerva |
Kate Stenhouse |
£695 |
| 17 May – 24 May 2008 |
Monte Minerva |
Anne Lang |
£695 |
| 07 June – 14 June 2008 |
Monte Minerva |
David Coupe |
£695 |
| 14 June – 21 June 2008 |
Monte Minerva |
Wendy Jelbert |
£695 |
| 21 June – 28 June 2008 |
Monte Minerva |
Keith Fenwick |
£695 |
| 06 Sept – 13 Sept 2008 |
Monte Minerva |
Kate Stenhouse |
£695 |
| 13 Sept – 20 Sept 2008 |
Monte Minerva |
Carole Massey |
£695 |
| 04 Oct – 11 Oct 2008 |
Codrongianos |
Sue Ford |
£695 |
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The painting holiday with Anne Lang at the Palazzo Minerva was a memorable experience. The hotel is situated in idyllic surroundings with plenty of scope for many painting opportunities. John and Maria were excellent host and hostess and organised the holiday both before and after in a friendly and efficient manner. They helped us with the easels, chairs and umbrellas whenever we needed them and nothing was too much trouble. All the food was traditional, well cooked and very varied, with plenty of local wine to add to the pleasure. The typical Sardinian villages where we painted were an artist’s dream and the local people were very friendly. Alghero, in its position on the coast was a magical place. I feel that as well as having a thoroughly good holiday I have learned a lot about outdoor painting and sketching with Anne’s expert guidance.
Guest on Anne Lang painting holiday – May 2007 |
Our Locations:
| Rustic charm in the foothills of Monte Minerva |
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Located in the foothills of Monte Minerva, a rustic hunting lodge and former countryside retreat of the Earl of Minerva, it is set amid a beautiful natural reserve. The lodge and former stables have been sympathetically restored to offer a high standard of comfort and hospitality whilst maintaining its original, aristocratic exterior. The peacefulness and tranquillity of this location, together with its captivating views, make painting here both relaxing and inspiring. For full details, please click here
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| Sophisticated elegance in the ancient village of Codrongianos |
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Located within walking distance of the ancient village of Codrongianos, this small 19th-century country manor house hotel is furnished in period style giving it an air of sophisticated Italian elegance. It is set in a beautiful natural park with a suggestive backdrop of hills lined with olive trees and fruit orchard. It is an ideal base for those looking for a relaxing holiday but also makes an excellent point of departure for our excursions to inspirational painting locations. For full details and sample itinerary, please click here
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John & Maria’s organising skills and attention to detail meant that nothing was left to chance and so this plus their friendliness and assistance, if needed, made this painting holiday a relaxing experience. All I had to do was enjoy the excellent food, wine and good company – oh, and of course the painting. Being an all inclusive holiday, this was very good value for money. Best wishes for the future. Keep in touch.
Guest on Anne Lang painting holiday – May 2006 |
Our Tutors:
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Over the years hundreds of students have enjoyed coming to Anne Lang's watercolour and sketching courses at Broadway Foot. With 23 years of teaching watercolour, initially at Adult Education Classes and privately for the last 17 years, Anne provides sensitive and patient structured tuition at all levels. Anne is also a popular demonstrator to Art Societies.
As a practising artist, her traditional, representational paintings of landscapes, flowers and cattle have been exhibited widely, with many successful exhibitions at North Yorkshire galleries. Anne's paintings have been commissioned by ICI, Philips Petroleum, Trust House Forte, the Duchy of Lancaster, St. Peter's School York and many other businesses and private individuals. more..
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Sue is a recognised and admired artist who demonstrates and teaches weekly in adult education classes and on her ever popular weekend workshops and holidays in pastel, watercolour and other mediums. Her work is exhibited widely through local and national exhibitions and galleries, and also at the Society of Women Artists in Mall Galleries, London and The Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA).
Sue’s aim is to stretch all students regardless of ability, to form a foundation of artistic techniques whilst developing their own style in a relaxed learning environment. Each student will be guided through each painting stage carefully throughout the day from an initial demonstration to get you started, followed by patient, professional tuition throughout the holiday. more..
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Kate is an established and acclaimed artist working from her remote cottage studio in Northumberland. Her love for nature and the countryside is reflected in all her paintings depicting many aspects of that rural life that she has embraced, including her paintings of sheep, which have brought her wide appreciation. Kate describes her watercolour style as loose, fresh and minimal.
Renowned for her teaching, Kate is a qualified teacher with over 15 years experience. She runs private classes in her area, has lectured at Newcastle College and has run Master Classes at the Biscuit Factory Gallery, Newcastle. Kate insists group sizes are kept small, max. 12, so you can visibly progress within the week and draw inspiration from painting along side a professional artist. more..
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After a successful career as a commercial artist running her own design business, Carole returned to her first love of painting and the initial stage of her new career is marked by important commissioned portraits whose subjects included members of the royal family and show business personalities, including Rolf Harris, which gained her a significant reputation as portrait painter. Her notoriety grew also thanks to several TV appearances
Today Carole is an accomplished professional artist working in watercolour, water soluble pencils, acrylics, pastel, water based oils and mixed media. She has also publishes several teaching art books and is a regular contributor to the SAA magazine “Paint”. She is a busy demonstrator and tutor at many Art Centres in the UK and in Brittany, her adopted home, as well as tutoring on painting holidays abroad. more..
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After years of painting in oils, a lifestyle of constant travelling and staying in Hotels brought David to turn to the watercolour medium and he has now being “hooked on on this unpredictable but wonderful medium“ for many years.
After taking early retirement he has been able to dedicate himself to watercolour painting and as the appreciation for his work became wider he decided to communicate his vision and inspiration to other people through classes, indoor and outdoor workshops and painting holidays. more..
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Having spent many years in management in both industry and further education, Keith Fenwick took early retirement to be able to dedicate himself completely to landscape painting. Keith paints in watercolour, acrylics, oils and watersolubles but most of his time is spent using watercolours and acrylics.
His teaching books, training videos and numerous classes, demonstrations and workshops, as well as his personal series on Sky TV “The Art Doctor” are for Keith a way of sharing his approach to painting Nature as well as improving more and more his understanding of student needs.
He finds great satisfaction in encouraging those who have always wanted to paint but lack confidence to try, as well as helping more experienced painters to develop their skills further. He is a natural and trained teacher who explains his methods in a down to earth, humorous manner, both in studio and outdoors in the field. more..
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A former model and actress, Wendy is an artist, a teacher and author. She is a popular and enthusiastic teacher tutoring in watercolours, acrylics, pen, line and wash and mixed media and has now been teaching groups for 25 years both abroad and at colleges in the UK such as Missenden Abbey, Earnely Concourse and Dartington Hall in Devon
Wendy has also written several books on techniques in water-based and other painting media which are often accompanied by videos, and is a regular contributor to Leisure Painter magazine. She has had major exhibitions at The Mall Gallery and Westminster Gallery in London , the St Ives Society in Cornwall and the Burford Gallery in Oxfordshire more..
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I feel having been taught by Anne (Lang) I would like to go on her courses in England. I feel more confident about starting a watercolour and the completion. For me it was the best of both worlds, plenty of painting and painting in beautiful surroundings.
Guest on Anne Lang painting holiday – May 2006 |
Our Prices:
Our holiday price includes all meals, including wine and water with dinner, accommodation, painting tuition, land transportation, entrance fees (to sites included in the itinerary), and transfers to and from the airport on arrival and departure days. Flights and travel insurance are NOT included in our price. |
REMEMBER THERE ARE NO SINGLE SUPPLEMENTS AND NO SINGLE SHARING ON ANY OF OUR HOLIDAYS!
Just a few lines to tell you how much I enjoyed my stay in Sardinia and to thank you for being so kind and helpful. Nothing was too much trouble for you. The Palazzo in Monte Minerva was beautiful and the surroundings stupendous. As you know I love Sardinia and have wonderful memories of times spent there and, now I have one more.
Guest on Sue Ford painting holiday - Oct 2007 |
Frequently Asked Questions:
| How do I get to Sardinia? |
Year round low cost flights operate from London Stansted, Liverpool & East Midlands to Alghero, Sardinia (Ryanair) and from London Gatwick to Olbia (Easyjet). There are also many direct flights from UK regional airports operating from May to October run by Holiday Options (www.holidayoptions.co.uk). |
| How do I make my travel arrangements? |
If you are not confident booking over the Internet, let us take the hassle out of organising your travel – we are more than happy to arrange and book your travel for you. Alternatively, visit your local travel agent and ask for flight only options to Sardinia. |
| How early do I have to book? |
Please register your interest as soon as possible as spaces are limited. We do not require any payment until your flights are booked (most flights can not be booked earlier than 6 months prior to departure). Note: air fares are normally cheaper when booked well in advance! |
| Can I bring a non-painting partner or friend? |
Yes, non-painting partners and friends are very welcome to accompany us. There is a wide range of activities for them to enjoy at each location – many at no extra cost. |
| Do I need to have any painting experience? |
No, the courses are suitable both for beginners and for accomplished painters - and all levels in between! |
| Do I need to bring my own equipment? |
No, we supply lightweight easels, boards, sun umbrellas and folding chairs so you don’t have to worry about bringing cumbersome equipment. |
| What materials do I need to bring? |
Our tutors provide you with a detailed list of materials for you to bring with you. There are only a limited amount of materials available locally! |
| How many students are on a course? |
There are between 8 and 12 students on each course. |
| Is the holiday price fully inclusive? |
Yes. Our painting holidays represent excellent value for money as everything is included in the price. You can come on the holiday and not spend a penny more than you've already paid! |
| Can you cater for my special dietary needs? |
Yes, just let us know about these when you make your booking and we will ensure that your requests are accommodated. |
| Are the holidays suitable for single guests? |
Yes. Our holidays are suitable for single travellers and have no single supplements or no single sharing is necessary. Meals are taken as a group so you have the opportunity to get to know everyone in the group over the length of the holiday. |
| I'd quite like a week lazing by a pool at the end of my holiday. Can you arrange this? |
No problem. We can arrange extra nights at a wide choice of hotels, B&B s and farmhouses throughout Sardinia. |
| Sounds great. How do I book? |
Contact John or Maria at info@bellasardinia.com who will be on hand to guide you through the booking process. |
Our Painting Links:
| Lawrence – Art materials since 1859 |
| The UK's premier supplier of artists' materials. |
| www.lawrence.co.uk |
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| Ken Bromley – Art Supplies |
| Buy artists' materials at discount prices. |
| www.artsupplies.co.uk |
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| Art Discount |
| Low prices on quality art, craft & graphics supplies. Why pay more? |
| www.artdiscount.co.uk |
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| Heaton Cooper Studio |
| Large range of art materials with online purchase and fast delivery. |
| www.heatoncooper.co.uk |
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