More than 70 people signed up for Mike Willdridge’s online interactive painting session with the Watermill yesterday, painting an Italian hilltop village, step-by-step along with Mike. They are you all part of our ‘virtual’ international painting community, with people from all over the world getting together for two or three hours of convivial creativity. Many […]
Is this the most user-friendly art gallery in Italy? Artistic masterpieces in a magnificent setting
Last week Lois and I were in Rome, celebrating her birthday with friends. While there we took the opportunity to visit again the Palazzo Doria Panphili and its knockout collection of paintings amassed by the rich and powerful family over hundreds of years . Open to the public, it is probably the most visitor-friendly art […]
Another great TripAdvisor review of our Italian language week. Tante Grazie, Susan
Susan Metcalf, who was on our Italian Language course at the Watermill last month, has just posted a lovely review of the week on TripAdvisor. She writes: “Everything about the Watermill is first class and I enjoyed every moment of my time there.I recommend it to anyone looking for a different kind of holiday in […]
Last few days to sign up to enjoy painting this Italian hilltop village along with Mike Willdridge in a Watermill online interactive session
You have only a few days left to sign up to paint this alluring Italian hilltop village alongside Mike Willdridge, in the first of the Watermill’s new season of interactive online painting sessions. We would love you to join them and become part of our ‘virtual’ community of like-minded people from all over the world […]
Will the leaning tower of Bologna become a mound of rubble?
I have often wondered, and I’m sure that you have too, what the Pisan tourist trade would have been like if its cathedral bell tower had not begun leaning from the early years of its construction in the 12th century and continued to do so ever since. The 56-metre-high tower, after stabilisation efforts at the […]
What’s a wee Scottish mousie doing this months’ Watermill newsletter?…
… or an Italian anchovy (Bless you!)? … or a voluptuous Dutch violin? Just click here to read all about these mysterious matters, as well as news of the first of our new season of interactive online sessions, painting this romantic Italian village along with Mike Willdridge. Oh, and of course , we have details […]
“This medium is alive: I try not choose a subject; I let the subject choose me.”
Those are the words of Watermill painting tutor Keiko Tanabe, talking in the video above about her philosophy of painting en plein air in watercolours. If you join her one of her famous week-long painting courses here, you will find endless subjects clamouring for your attention. Keiko will be on hand to help you to […]
Join our international community to paint along online with Mike
Dozens of people have already signed up to paint this alluring Italian hilltop village alongside Mike Willdridge, in the first of the Watermill’s new season of interactive online painting sessions. We would love you to join them and become part of our ‘virtual’ community of like-minded people from all over the world enjoying an inspiring […]
Take a 15-minute break and enjoy Watermill tutor Pamme Turner’s charming video on successful watercolour painting
Relax! Make yourself a cup of tea or coffee (or maybe something stronger!) and enjoy a soothing 15 minute-long video that has just been made for us by our charming Watermill painting tutor Pamme Turner. You will enjoy her laid-back style as she tells you the secrets of turning a plein air sketch into a […]
Paint this alluring Italian hilltop village with Mike Willdridge, in the first of our new series of Watermill interactive Internet sessions
Thanks to our appreciative and supportive guests and our inspiring and sympathetic tutors, we have had a wonderful year of creative courses at the Watermill. Now, as we make the Watermill and its grounds even more beautiful for next season, we’ve created a new series of interactive online sessions, where you can happily paint along […]