We will do 2 x Mini bus excursions for painting En Plein Air:  St Michael's Mount and Zennor. These excursions are included in the holiday fee.

St Michael's Mount will be our 1st  fabulous Plein Air painting location.
We will be painting in watercolour with Cleo at this location.
From as far back as 495AD, tales tell of seafarers lured by mermaids onto the rocks and it’s said the Archangel Michael appeared on the western side of the island – below where the entrance to the castle is today – to ward fishermen from certain peril. It’s a legend which has brought pilgrims, monks and people of faith to the island ever since, to pray, to praise and to celebrate.
By the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, the island had come into the possession of the Benedictine abbey of Mont St Michel in Normandy.  Construction began in 1135 on the church and priory buildings at the summit.
We will be painting a distant view to begin with, then at low tide, we can all walk across to the island and visit the wonderful castle and grounds.
While summer airs scarce breathe along the tide, 
Oft pausing, up the mountain's craggy side 

​We climb, how beautiful, how still, how clear, 
The scenes that stretch around! The rocks that rear 
Their shapes, in rich fantastic colours dressed; 
The hill-tops, where the softest shadows rest; 
The long-retiring bay, the level sand...

William Lisle Bowles

Zennor will be our second En Plein Air painting excursion and we will be painting in Acrylics with Mark. Please note acrylic pens can be used instead of paints if preferred.This mystical landscape is tucked away in a small dell off of the main road, just a few ancient buildings with St. Senara's church tower popping up just above the hillocks and trees. A church has stood on this site since the 6th century, said to have been founded by St Senara, a Breton princess who was visited by an angel and gave birth in the sea.
Look out for the medieval chair that depicts the Mermaid of Zennor and the tombstone dedicated to a ‘henpecked husband’.
We will pop in for lunch at the famous Tinner's Arms Pub which was originally built in 1271 as accommodation for the churches builders. 
​During the First World War, the writer DH Lawrence who stayed in the Tinner's Arms  pub for a few weeks  wrote:

​ “One sees infinite Atlantic, all peacock mingled colours, and the gorse is sunshine itself. Zennor is a most beautiful place”.
Patrick Heron's family moved down to Zennor from Leeds (where he was born) in 1925, and in the winter of 1927 his father rented Eagle's Nest, for five
months. It is an extraordinarily dramatic sight, perched 600ft above the sea in a
patchwork of Bronze Age fields, surrounded by huge stones, lichened with age.