Oil Painting in Southern France w/ Eric Santoli

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Oil Painting in Southern France w/ Eric Santoli

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📅 May 21-28, 2025 ​🌏Pezenas, France 🎨Oil Painting

Join Artist Eric Santoli and unlock your artist potential for a week-long plein air workshop in the South of France.  

Led by your English speaking Tour guide, discover the charming historic centres of Pezenas. With hundreds of local artisan workshops, art galleries and gourmet restaurants, the choice will be yours to make!

Located at a 5 min. walking distance from the cobblestone streets of Pezenas, spend 7 nights at the 4* Hotel and Spa Garrigae Distillerie Hotel and enjoy the personal touch of a boutique hotel.

Savour the delicious French Cuisine at the wine and food tastings complementing your artistic explorations. Beyond rich cultural and culinary experiences, you will share incredible memories with 12 like minded artists.. and soon-to-be friends! 

Embrace a carefully curated tour to unleash your creativity following guided visits in the comfort of your private tour bus. Non-painting partners and photo enthusiasts are also welcomed on this tour. A special program of guided visits is designed for them during the painting sessions.

Celebrate the French “Art de Vivre” with Eric Santoli and let the blooming gardens of Southern France inspire your best paintings! 

Booking information


Painter Pack: €3,590/pers. (Single room extra fee: +€450)  - Non-Painter Pack: €3,390/pers.

  • A €1,000 deposit per person is required upon booking to secure your spot
  • Remaining balance is due by February 21, 2025
  • 100% Refund if cancelled before February 21, 2025 (minus admin. fee). TERMS & CONDITIONS

The painting tour will also include Artist Oksana Danziger and her students.

Please note that the tour includes some daily walking (couple of hours/day) and carrying your own painting supplies. Participant must be able to walk comfortably.

What's included


✅ Instructed painting workshops: oil painting classes in plein-air at different locations each day, demonstrations with artist Eric Santoli & individual tuition

✅7 nights of accommodation at 4 star hotel Garrigae Distillerie Hotel in Pézenas with access to swimming pool, gardens, wine bar & restaurant)

✅ Expert Tour Guides all week leading the Painting Group and guiding the Non-painting Partners during workhop times.

✅Outdoor Painting workshop equipment provided with small tables, foldable chairs, lightweight premium easels, paper towels and disposable bags

✅All group meals including 7 buffet breakfasts with daily-made French pastries, cured meat, cheeses and fresh fruits ; 5 lunches at local restaurants with a special selection of French dishes ; 2 celebration dinners with a 3-course welcome dinner & a Farewell Cocktail Party

✅Local wine served with group meals

✅Coffee & Tea available in your room

✅Daily trips to various painting locations with guided visits, walking tours, time for shopping

✅Special program for non-painting partners during painting sessions led by a local Tour guide

✅Private Tour bus with AC for all planned activities

✅ Round-trip group transfers from/to Montpellier airport (MPL)

✅ All local tourist taxes and fees

Not included


❌ Airfare - Recommended Group Flight information (New York (JFK) to Montpeliier (MPL) & booking details with our partners will be communicated upon booking

❌ Travel insurance - available with our partners

❌ Art materials - a list of art supplies recommended by artist Eric Santoli will be provided three months before the tour.

❌ Tips for staff 

❌ Other expenses guests might incur on their own


Instructor

Eric Alexander Santoli is a 2014 BFA graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a 2013 certificate recipient of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.  In 2024, he received his MA in Studio Art from the Florence Academy of Art.

In May of 2021, he was awarded the Versailles Foundation's prestigious Munn Fellowship Artist Residency Award and lived as an Artist-in-Residence at Claude Monet's house and gardens in Giverny, France in 2023.

Currently represented by Martin House Gallery and Cimarron Song Gallery.  He is also proud to be a brand ambassador for Natural Pigments and an affiliate artist with Rosemary & Co Artists' Brushes.

In addition to painting, Eric enjoys being outdoors, gardening, reading, writing, traveling, skateboarding and riding his Triumph Bonneville T100.  

Check out his website: www.ericsantoli.com

Join Eric on this incredible trip!

Reserve your spot before it's too late!

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Date & Time
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Start - 12:00 PM (Europe/Paris)
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
End - 12:00 PM (Europe/Paris)

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Location

Garrigae Distillerie de Pézenas

6 rue Calquières Hautes
34120 Pézenas
France
--Garrigae Distillerie de Pézenas--
+33 4 67 11 51 10

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Paint Away Tours

+1 646-809-4790
beatrice@paintawaytours.com
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