Join Canadian artist, Laura Harris, for a heavenly week of creative, cultural, and epicurean experiences in beautiful Puglia, Italy. During this painting vacation, we’ll paint in the mornings under Laura’s guidance and spend our afternoons experiencing Puglia’s authentic villages, stunning landscapes, amazing cuisine, authentic villages, and wonderful year-round sunny weather. With whitewashed buildings, secret castles, crystalline Mediterranean Sea, and a slow approach to life, you will surely be enchanted by this gorgeous slice of Italy.
For this gloriously indulgent week, we’ve also partnered with the incredibly talented chef Julie Marr and her amazing partner Francesco Creanza, a Puglia native, of Everyone at the Table. This dynamic duo will take us to some of their favourite haunts in Puglia and share their love of the region and passion for food with us. We love their approach to life and their philosophy of sharing time, food, and stories around a table where everyone is welcome.
Inspired, connected, generous and intuitive, Laura Harris has motivated countless people to rewrite their stories and honour their creative calling. Offered to beginners and non-beginners alike, Laura will share her unique approach to painting, with a focus on manifesting inspiration and personal expression.
The Laura Harris Painting Retreat in Puglia includes 7 nights accommodation, 4 days with painting instruction, nearby excursions, culinary experiences with Julie & Francesco, many meals, transfers, and painting supplies. No experience necessary! Please contact us to participate in this exclusive retreat – [email protected]
NO EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY.
With a long list of successful exhibits that span 20 years and collectors worldwide, Laura’s paintings are described as beautifully imperfect. Often large in scale with strikingly bold colours and texture, each piece offers discovery. Her process is rooted in memory and imagination, and her emotions are palpable. When she’s at work, Harris becomes utterly engrossed in her practice. It’s a fully physical task with music turned up loud and paint flying. Laura applies the same love and abandon to all other areas of her life.
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Experiencing authentic Apulian cuisine and hospitality from Julie Marr and Francesco Creanza of E.A.T.
We are Julie Marr and Francesco Creanza and we met in Puglia in 2014. Since then we have shared our passion for cooking and history by hosting workshops in Southern Italy, France and Vancouver, Canada.
Everyone at the Table (E.A.T.) embodies our philosophy of sharing time, food, and stories around a table where everyone is welcome.
We recently purchased an apartment as well as a small parcel of land with 35 olive trees, fig, pear, pomegranate, and almond trees in Oria, in the Salento region of Puglia. It is here that we hope to continue sharing our love of traditional food culture with all who pull up a chair to our table.
The property is an ancient Apulian farm with 16th century Trulli that has been converted to a gorgeous villa. Trulli are fairytale-like cylindrical, whitewashed buildings with grey conical roofs tapering out to a point or sphere, often adorned with painted symbols, and are unique to Puglia. To learn more about this gorgeous 4* Masseria accommodation – Masseria Ayroldi
Experiencing Puglia’s authentic villages, stunning landscapes, amazing cuisine, authentic villages, and wonderful year-round sunny weather.
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