This is a course for both novices and the more experienced artist. Working alongside Paula in the beautiful countryside adjoining the Chateau students will have opportunities to work in their favourite medium and style.
Course structure
Arrive Sunday in time for welcome cocktails and dinner on the terrace.
From Monday to Friday the days will follow a similar structure. There will be three painting sessions per day plus free time for you to relax or explore the local area and an evening critique where the tutor and the participants will come together on the terrace of the Château to discuss each other's work, make suggestions for the next day and of course to sample the local wines and aperitifs.
Daily Itinerary
8-9 a.m. Breakfast buffet
10 – 11 a.m. Early morning session
11.00 a.m.Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30 Late morning session painting
12.30 – 2.30 Lunch time buffet (outside when weather permits)
2.30 – 5.00 Afternoon painting session
5.00 - 7.00 Free time
7pm Daily Critique
8p.m. Dinner
On Saturday morning guests are offered flexible breakfast to enable them to make an early departure.
Materials
Participants are invited to bring their own materials with them: your favourite range of acrylics, oils, watercolours, pastels etc - water pots, brushes, easel.
We have a supply of watercolour papers and canvasses to buy at Chateau Ventenac. There are also a couple of field easels for students use.
Prices
The cost for this 6 night course is £595 per person sharing a room, to include all meals and accommodation and transport on field trips (There is a single supplement of £150)
Non Painting partners are very welcome at a cost of £395 including all meals and accommodation.
Transfers from local airports at Carcassonne or Beziers, or from Narbonne railway station can be arranged at a cost of 10 euros each way. Please check with us before booking if you need transfers
Places are limited, book your place now by filling in the online booking form
For more information click here to contact Julia at Chateau Ventenac
About Paula Nightingale
Biography
Paula studied at the Beckenham School of Art, followed by the Royal College of Art. (1st Class Hons) and from there a scholarship to the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst in Munich, where she explored the techniques of etching under Ernst Geitlinger. This was followed by a scholarship to France to work on landscape. Mary Fedden was one of her tutors at RCA
Teaching
Paula has taught painting and print making at the Ravensbourne College of Art. Painting days, week-ends and weekly holiday courses now available on the NORFOLK BROADS from the artists studio.
