Spend a magical week in the heart of Southern France with artist Katherine Downey Miller, where you’ll create a personal collection of abstract styled paintings inspired by the region’s radiant light, rolling landscapes, and timeless village charm.

This artist-led painting retreat is based in the beautifully preserved town of Pézenas, renowned for its cobblestone streets, artisan workshops, and lively open-air cafés. When you're not painting, take time to explore local markets, meet talented craftspeople, and immerse yourself in the rich atmosphere that has inspired generations of artists and writers.

Immerse yourself in the luscious Maine landscape with artist Katherine Downey Miller, where you’ll create a personal collection of fresh paintings inspired by the region’s verdant landscape, light and atmosphere in an early summer pallet. 

Under Katherine’s gentle and expert guidance, you’ll have the opportunity to discover and visit your own voice in a series of en plein air paintings in your preferred painting medium.

Painting is about moving energy around. Come visit beautiful, breathtaking Nantucket Island this summer and take a painting class with me! 

Painting is about moving energy around. Come visit beautiful, breathtaking Nantucket Island this summer and take a painting class with me! 

This is a 4 day intensive workshop and is about is about moving from landscape into abstraction. The idea of landscape to abstraction covers a very broad range. It is very difficult to move one’s thinking towards the abstract, but through using the lines of land, deciphering shapes, and simplifying, we will change our language from the literal to the non-objective using nature as our teacher. Students make work in any paint media they choose.

All good abstraction comes from reality. Using the lines of the land to access the language of abstraction, we will learn about dynamic composition, foundation building blocks of landscape painting and loosen up to find simple compelling landscapes.