Retreats

This week long rural Art and Nature retreat, connects people to the land, to the beauty of nature, to raw materials and to each person’s own creativity and potential through making art.

In this quiet sanctuary, let the world drop away for a while and let the peace of life become slower. With forest bathing, river bathing, sitting in flowering meadow and orchards, there is time to touch, feel, smell, taste and look while making a variety of different artworks.

Os Fuigerios, where the Art and Nature retreats are based, is an ancient farmhouse built around a courtyard lying amongst the forests and valleys of the Segala, South West France. Rustic stone walls, fig trees, linen bed sheets, yoga barn, and a large sunny courtyard that offers a communal space for eating and cheerful evenings of home cooked vegetarian and vegan foods with music or film nights. Trips to local village markets and hilltop restaurants, wine tastings (and drinking!). With plenty of quiet time to yourselves if that is what you want.

All art materials will be provided and the Art experience will cover exploring different elements of the nature and landscapes around us, using different materials such as pencil, pen and ink, watercolour, acrylics, oil pastel or collage, and cyanotypes.