Visiting Florence Susan and I first visited San Gimignano in February 1999. We were staying in Florence for several days. We had seen San Gimignano featured on a holiday programme so we decided to go there for the day. A local bus took us to nearby Poggibonsi then after a short wait, another bus to our destination, […]
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Painting Holiday in Umbria
There are only 2 double rooms and a single room left on our Painting Holiday in Umbria, Italy 9-16th May 2015. Pienza, Tuscany I’m really looking forward to what promises to be a lovely time of painting “en plein air” in and around a beautiful part of Italy. Guests will have a fabulous opportunity to brush up […]
San Gimignano, Italy
Sketching in San Gimignano Italy For more than a decade, I have been building up a collection of limited edition prints taken from some of my of Italy . Before embalming on the finished watercolour of The Towers in San Gimignano, I like to spend time in the chosen location (who wouldn’t?). I make at […]
San Gimignano
Florence The first time I went to San Gimignano was in February 1999. We took the bus from Florence to visit this Medieval Tuscan hilltop town after seeing it on a holiday programme. I saw its 14 famous towers for the first time from several miles away. It made me even more eager to explore […]