Travel Workshops
Travel Workshops and Seminars are designed for immersion
in both seeing and making artwork. Participants hone sketchbook methods as a powerful and portable practice enabling artwork to continue during these adventures.
Each travel seminar tries to find a balance between trekking
to important sites and using retreat time for reflection and integrative work. Ireland, Cornwall, France including Provence and the prehistoric caves of the Dordogne, are some previous destinations.
Six trips to Italy have incorporated visits to Rome, Florence, Ravenna, Venice, and Assisi with the magnificent forest and farm preserve of Spannocchia in Tuscany used as our center for retreat.

Art Retreats in Kauai
Our workshop residence in Hawaii is the Waimea Plantation
on the southwest coast of Kauai. We inhabit several of the large cottages within a few steps of the Pacific surf.
Giant banyans and palms surround the oasis of our residence. Three meals a day are provided by Ginger Carlson, one of
the finest chefs on the island. Exercises for artmaking
are attuned to the particular stimulation of the island culture. Sunrise and sunset sessions have become a tradition.
This workshop offers an intensive individual retreat time for artists with consultations for private work agendas.
Daily workshop structures are also provided for small group instruction.

Upcoming Kauai Workshop: February 3 to 13 of 2007

Green Gulch Art Retreats
The quiet Zen community of Green Gulch Farm is set in a coastal valley of the San Francisco Bay headlands. Along with nourishing vegetarian meals grown from Green Gulch’s organic gardens, we enjoy the sounds and stimulation from the nearby ocean, the simple and elegant accommodations of our guesthouse, the warm fireplace and inviting circle of tables in our meadow studio, and the beautiful hills and trails leading through the surrounding landscape. 
On these four-day workshops we use the tools of drawing and painting to engage and explore the environment and our selves. 
Daily exercises are designed to further sensitivity to seeing and reflecting, strengthen artistic practices, and move toward new growth and transformation.

Upcoming Green Gulch Workshops; June 25-29, 2006
Also October 29-1 Nov., 2006