Description

The Spring Painting Retreat is a ten-day, residential studio practice held in Italy for artists who want time, focus, and continuity away from daily life.

The retreat is structured around sustained painting from the life model, supported by a consistent daily rhythm, shared meals, and a dedicated studio environment. Rather than compressing activity into novelty or variety, the retreat allows artists to stay with a single visual problem over multiple days. Returning to the same figure, the same working conditions, and the same questions of drawing, paint, and form.

This is not a holiday and not a taught course. It is a facilitated studio environment designed to support serious, independent practice. Artists work at their own pace within a shared structure that balances long working sessions with rest and reflection.

The value of the retreat lies in immersion: stepping out of fragmented routines and into a sustained period of making, where attention can deepen and work can resolve naturally over time.

This retreat is suited to artists who want to paint seriously, work from the figure, and benefit from a contained, professional studio setting in a rural Italian context.