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Still Life and Landscape Painting Retreat in the heart of Umbria, with Avital Burg
Castiglione della Valle (PG), Italy
April 26 - May 3, 2025
An 8 Day workshop where artists will immerse themselves in the living tradition of still life, while utilizing the surrounding landscape and its rich history, to create personal and dynamic images. Working from observation, instruction will address formal issues, including scale, geometry, color mixing, spatial relationships, perspective and measuring, composition, line, form, light, value ranges and mark-making techniques.
THE EXPERIENCE
What’s Included
Roundtrip transfer from Rome airport to the Castle
8 days/7 nights accommodation in a single or double room, with ensuite bathroom
6 days of painting instruction
All meals and drinks, including local wine
A painting excursion & wine tasting event at a nearby vineyard
A 2-hour cooking class
A painting excursion to nearby towns
The Full 8 Day Itinerary:
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Airport pick-up in Rome at Fiumicino Airport
Transfer to Castiglione della Valle (1:45 min by bus)
Arrive at the Castle at 2:00pm
Orientation, welcome & light lunch
Aperitivo & dinner at the Castle
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• Breakfast
• Morning painting instruction
• Lunch at the Castle
• Afternoon painting instruction
• Aperitivo & dinner at the Castle -
• Breakfast
• Morning painting instruction
• Lunch at the Castle
• Afternoon painting instruction
• Aperitivo & dinner at the Castle -
• Breakfast
• Morning painting instruction
• Lunch at the Castle
• Afternoon painting instruction at local vineyard
• Wine tasting and charcuterie
• Dinner at the Castle -
• Breakfast
• Excursion to Panicale & lunch
• Afternoon painting instruction
• Aperitivo & dinner at the Castle -
• Breakfast
• Morning painting instruction
• Lunch at the Castle
• Afternoon painting instruction
• Dinner at the Castle -
• Breakfast
• 2 hour cooking class & lunch
• Afternoon painting instruction & lecture
• Farewell aperitivo & exhibit of work
• Dinner at the Castle -
• Breakfast
• Depart for Rome at 7:00 AM
• Arrive in Rome at Fiumicino Airport
The Venue: Castello Monticelli
Castello Monticelli is a historic residence,
protected by the Italian Ministry of Art and Culture.
From 593 to 774 A.D. it was a fortress to defend Perugia from the Longobards, then it became a Benedectine Monastry for about 500 years and from about 1470 was a summer and hunting residence of aristocratic families.
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Castello Monticelli
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Castello Monticelli
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Castello Monticelli
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Castello Monticelli
The Instructor
Brooklyn-based artist Avital Burg creates highly personal works that are anchored in the love of looking out onto the world in and around the studio. Rooted in the tradition of still life and portrait painting and the practice of spending a long time with one’s subject, Burg's paintings emerge from a lengthy process of observation and labor. In recent years, Burg has been focusing on crafting layered and highly textured canvases with immediate, everyday imagery in mind. In particular, street wildflowers from the edges of her Brooklyn neighborhood and the different locations where she travels and paints, self portraits framed by the urban red brick view outside her studio’s window, and mundane objects from the studio. Avital Burg recently taught an intensive drawing marathon at the New York Studio School, and has been teaching privately across NY for over a decade. Her work was recently in solo shows at Browse & Darby in association with Crean and Company, London (2022), Pamela Salisbury Gallery, NY (2021), Slag Gallery, NYC (2017) and Neve Schechter Gallery, Tel Aviv (2019-2020) and in many group exhibitions in NY and internationally. Burg attended the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, “Hatahana” school of figurative drawing and painting, Tel Aviv, The Slade School of Art, London, and the New York Studio School.
This 8-day Italian Artist Workshop with all the above inclusions for….
Pricing: $2,800 - 3,400
$2,900 Shared Twin Bedroom with private bathroom (shared with one other participant)
$3,200 Private Bedroom with a double bed and private bathroom
$3,400 Private Suite with 1 double bed and 2 twin beds, private bathroom
$1,500 Non-Participating Partner to share a private bedroom or private suite with you
TERMS & CONDITIONS
PAYMENT OPTIONS:
A deposit of $500 is due upon registration. Final payment must be received 3 months before workshop start date.
It can be paid via PayPal or Zelle, kindly send email for details.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
Full refunds are given up to 60 days before workshop start date. Thereafter and until 30 days before start date participants will forfeit deposit.
ANY CANCELLATION/CHANGE OCCURRING WITHIN 30 DAYS OF START OF WORKSHOP WILL NOT BE REFUNDED, BUT CAN BE CREDITED TOWARDS FUTURE WORKSHOPS.
WAIVER:
Kindly note that we are not responsible for any loss or damage participants may suffer in the course of the workshop due to theft, accident, illness or bodily injury.
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