Landscape Painting
with Lori Putnam

🗓️ August 14th to 21st 2027 at our other venue Borgo Burlamacchi

🎨 Oil Paint

Language: English

Full Board Accommodation: from €2,490 for 7 nights

Tutor's Fee: €1,000

Partners & family may join the trip as non-participating guests without the teaching fee.

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Accommodation

Course Description

Painting from life outdoors is fundamental to becoming a master artist. For five days, participants will paint on the beautiful grounds surrounding Borgo Burlamacchi in Bagni di Lucca and in quaint nearby towns. (Studio space is available in case of inclement weather.) This flexible yet focused retreat will leave participants more confident in their skills and more intuitive in their process.

Lori has been teaching retreat-style workshops for a very long time. One of the things she has learned from 20+ years of experience is that sometimes, in a beautiful place like this, you just want to paint while the light in good! Rather than attending a long demonstration every morning as your beautiful light transitions into mid-day, Lori's retreats give you the option to craft your perfect learning experience. This is a flexible painting retreat. You get to decide how much or how little instruction you need. Paint on your own, or paint near her as she paints. (Ultimately, Lori wants what is best for you, so she will speak with you individually if she observes that you need more her time and less you time.)

For anyone deciding to paint near her, Lori will share her every thought, demonstrate her techniques, and answer questions. She believes that strong paintings come from strong starts. So even if you only watch and listen briefly, and then decide you just have to go paint, she is fine with that! You will still have the opportunity to have your work critiqued later.

Other group workshop activities include painting together in a predefined location, attending Lori's mini-lessons and demos, joining in relaxed, “aperitivo" critiques, and exploring art and the artist’s career through discussion. Come, deepen your understanding of light and landscape, and focus on your artistic growth.

While demonstrations and advice on technique will be geared toward oil or gouache painters, artists who are more comfortable working in other mediums are welcome. Plein air experience is strongly recommended.

About Lori

Lori Putnam OPAM is recognized for her fresh and engaging oil paintings. Working in today's new impressionist style, she illustrates nature's intrinsic beauty and light.

Having traveled to paint, research, lecture, and teach in over 30 countries, she believes exposure to other lives and geographic locations has been her greatest teacher.

Rather than relying on photographs, the artist works from her notes and sketches back home in her Tennessee studio. There, she paints large-scale pieces, often combining multiple studies in her creative process.

Putnam is a Signature Member of the California Art Club, American Impressionist Society, Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, and American Women Artists, and is a Master Signature Member in the Oil Painters of America and International Plein Air Painters.

In 2021, she won the international Plein Air Salon Grand Prize. Her painting was chosen from more than 12,000 entries.