Delve into memory for your magical places and stories and forage the Château grounds for images and ideas to create your own artist’s book. Learn innovative book structures, experiment with various tools and mark making techniques, lettering, and ways of thinking about text and story.

This course offers instruction in painting the human figure from a live model. Students will explore color, anatomy, and expressive technique to capture the vitality and form of the human body. No experience necessary.

We’ll experiment with a wide range of materials and mediums—engaging their Textures, colors, energies, and origins—while exploring multi-media assemblage, unconventional tools, and embodied mark-making.

Discover the physical and symbolic power of color through ways that bridge painting and sculpture. Participants hand-make pigments, explore traditional binders, and learn the historical meanings of color. The workshop culminates in a collective installation of paintings and sculptural studies.

Through mindful observation, material exploration, and connection to the landscape, learn to paint from within. This immersive retreat offers the tools and space to replace imitation with authenticity and trust in your creative process.

Rather than silencing your inner critic, learn to listen for the wisdom hidden within its voice. This retreat blends mindfulness, nature, and studio exploration to help you transform fear into fuel and deepen your confidence in your artistic painting intuition.

This retreat invites artists to move beyond their primary disciplines and uncover untapped dimensions of their creative voice. From merging text and image and writing to short films, you’ll awaken new ways of seeing and making.

Each day will start with a poetry prompt. Over the five days, you will awaken your creative reflections through filmmaking, assemblage, and sculpture that invite you to imagine more freely.

Discover how to transform your travel experiences into expressive, unfussy tablescape paintings. You'll learn how to arrange a balanced still life, capture mood through color, and use loose, intuitive brushwork.

Immerse yourself in nature as you learn to observe light, color, and atmosphere. This plein air workshop strengthens your ability to translate what you see into expressive, confident paintings created outdoors.

Explore color, composition, paint application, and the foundational principles of oil painting while capturing favorite moments amid the beauty of the area. Experience growth in direct painting methods through intentional observation in the studio and outdoors.

This process-led workshop explores intuitive mark-making, where instinct and materials guide the creative process. Ideal for artists, makers, and curious beginners, participants reconnect with their hands and leave with experimental works and renewed creative intuition.