IRELAND, COUNTY MAYO
Ireland Painting Workshop And Tour Led By Kathleen Jacobs
May 28-Jun 7 2025
- The focus will be the art and culture of Western Ireland.
- Nine days with Kathleen Jacobs your artistic instructor and Cormac Cullen your personal local Irish guide.
- Tour limited to 12 passengers.
- Experience Ireland with majority of evenings in one hotel, all en-suite accommodations, and water view rooms.
- Relaxed & flexible itinerary.
- Impromptu visits with local artists.
• Sign up early for reduced rate on the first five single rooms!!!
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Your home away from home is a lovely hotel on the Quay (harbor) of Westport, County Mayo. Not far from the quaint town center, with its many shops and pubs.
There is a pool and optional spa facilities are available.
Join artist and painting instructor Kathleen Jacobs for a painting workshop excursion to County Mayo, Ireland! Your group will have your own personal local Irish guide, Cormac Cullen, based in Westport, Ireland. You will be taken to the beautiful countryside to explore this ancient and mythical country. There are spectacular monastic and megalithic ruins to seek out in your daily adventures. Return to your lovely hotel after painting all day to dine, converse and mingle with fellow artists. You can also partake in evenings listening to Irish musicians play traditional music in the local pubs. Depending on their schedule, a tour may be provided at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, located in Ballycastle. The attendees loved the visit with them last year.
We invite you to immerse yourself in an enriching and creative experience that will expand your painting practice and experience. Students of beginner, intermediate to advanced levels are welcome, open to all painters using oil, watercolor, acrylic or gouache.
Kathleen Jacobs will provide individualized instruction during plein air excursions, demonstrations, discussions and presentations that will provide the format for an intensive exciting learning experience. The focus is on the landscape of County Mayo, where you will experience first-hand the beauty and richness of Ireland. Jacobs will emphasize the importance of drawing and composition as a foundation of a painting. Working small, participants will work to create work with a spirit of place. Her teaching emphasizes looking at the landscape and to understand the formal elements of painting, shape, color, space, form while responding to the grace, order and beauty that is in front of you. There will be ample opportunity to discuss each other’s work and to discuss other international painters throughout history to enrich our experience in Ireland.
Italy Painting Tour Of Tuscan Hill Towns
October 8-17, 2025
9 days
- Plein Air Small Format Landscape Drawing and Painting workshop with Professional Tour Leader Kathleen Jacobs
- Seven evenings in the Tuscan countryside, with grapevines and cypress trees
- Tuscany’s medieval towns and villages: San Gimignano, San Donato, Greve in Chianti, and others, equally well-preserved
- Departure limited to 12 participants to optimize your artistic experience
In this class students will start with intuitive sketches of the natural hills, trees and foliage of the Italian landscape. Students look carefully to make pencil compositional studies to settle into the view of such a special place. Working in any painting medium, students will make small intimate paintings in one sitting. Like Corot, students will look to investigate composition, using form, shape, line, and color while working in nature. Emphasis will be placed on capturing the feeling of the landscape, without over analysis. We will use the historic color paint palette of Corot to express emotion.
Kathleen Jacobs will provide individualized instruction during plein air excursions, demonstrations, discussions, and presentations that will provide the format for an intensive exciting learning experience. Working small, participants will work to create work with a spirit of place. Her teaching emphasizes looking at the landscape and to understand the formal elements of painting, shape, color, space, form while responding to the grace, order and beauty that is in front of you. There will be ample opportunity to discuss each other’s work and to discuss other international painters throughout history to enrich our experience in Italy.