Summer Art / Painting Courses in French Riviera, France

Ostroverhy Workshops:
Ostroverhy Workshops in Paris and Agay, Cote d'Azur, France offer all year seascape, landscape and portrait painting lessons to students of all levels of skill from complete beginners to advanced painters. Paint in the presence of a European master in the most inspiring scenery France has to offer. Our workshops are lead by Sergio Ostroverhy, finalist of both BP and PSOA competitions, and explore the secrets of à la prima landscape oil-painting, and classical portrait drawing. We provide a tailor-made service with exceptional tuition, exclusive accommodation and magical painting sites.

All year Painting Workshops for Beginner to Advanced Students:

Landscape Painting on the French Riviera:
Week-long oil land- and seascape painting workshop in Agay, South of France. Five days of one-to-one tuition with awarding winning professional artist Sergio Ostroverhy, suitable for all levels of ability. The workshop will comprise of morning sessions painting a mountain lanscape in the Esterel hills and afternoons painting seascapes and making excursions to nearby places of interest. The price of the workshop includes 6 nights food and accomodation in an exclusive hotel, and all the materials you will require.
Attendees of these workshops have the option to continue their studies with a week of fine art seminars in Paris at our atelier.

What is the workshop schedule?
The beginning of our workshops will be celebrated with a drinks reception at 6pm on the April 19th for the first workshop, on the terrace of our hotel, overlooking the bay of Agay. You will get to meet our team and your fellow participants and then enjoy our first dinner in the hotel restaurant.

Each day will begin with breakast between 7.45 and 8.30am. We will leave the hotel at 8.30 am to begin the painting sessions on site at 9.00am. At 12.00am we will return to the hotel for lunch at 12.30am. There is a break before the afternoon session where you are free to spend your time at the hotel or in Agay. There are tennis courts at the hotel and the beach is a 10 minute walk from the hotel. By 15.00pm we will begin our afternoon session on site till 18.00pm. You will have a short rest before dinner which is served from 19.15 to 20.15pm.

On the afternoon of the 3rd day of teaching there is an optional visit to the medieval town of Antibes, a 40 minute train journey away from Agay. Here you will have the chance to visit the Picasso museum as well as the Chateau de la Napoule on the return train journey home.


Paris Classical Drawing Workshop:
Week-long drawing course, including sessions on still life, live models, classical portraiture and cityscapes, under the tutelage of Sergio Ostroverhy.