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The Art of Still Life: Painting in Spoleto

with Sarah Spackman - October 10-17, 2025

The Art of Still Life: Painting in Spoleto

with Sarah Spackman - October 10-17, 2025

Bring your artistic vision to life amidst the breathtaking backdrop of Spoleto!

Dates: October 10-17, 2025
Instructors: Sarah Spackman
Venue: Palazzo Leti, Spoleto, Umbria, Italy
Media: Oil
Level: All levels welcome

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Discover the timeless charm of Spoleto, an Italian hilltop town renowned for its vibrant food markets and artistic inspiration. Join award-winning British artist Sarah Spackman for an exclusive workshop designed to help you develop your unique artistic voice through the beauty of still life painting.

Begin your journey by exploring Spoleto’s markets, selecting fresh, colorful treasures to use as subjects. Back in the studio, learn to capture their essence in simple still life setups, refining your skills in observation, color mixing, and composition.

Workshop Overview:

  • Day 1: Market visit, color wheels, and studies in light, value, and greys.
  • Day 2: Primary palette focus—mixing for values.
  • Day 3: Expanding the primary palette—color harmony.
  • Day 4: Full palette exploration with emphasis on composition.
  • Day 5: Finalize compositions using the full color palette.

 

Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned artist, this workshop is a space to explore, experiment, and grow in a supportive environment. With Italy’s rich love for food and beauty as your inspiration, you’ll learn to transform everyday objects into vibrant oil paintings that celebrate color and light.

Join us in Spoleto and bring your artistic vision to life in this unforgettable setting.

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About the Instructor

Sarah Spackman is a contemporary figurative artist particularly well known for her still life oil paintings. She works from a studio in Oxford that was once a punt building workshop. Strength of drawing and the delicate and subtle use of colour are two of the main qualities recognised in her work. Her practise focuses on the principle that good drawing is the basis of good painting and that colour should be used to enhance the organisation and definition of observed space and form. Sarah works in a considered way, with close observation. Her paintings are quiet in their presence but nonetheless powerful and engaging to the viewer. These are paintings that take a close look at things around us, take the object out of the ordinary and make the viewer look again.


Sarah trained at Byam Shaw School of Art, London and graduated from Camberwell School of art in 1981. She was elected as a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 2019, and a member of the Small Paintings Group in 2021. Sarah’s work is in many private collections world wide as well as the collection of the Allied Irish Bank. Her work has also been selected for the Jerwood Drawing Competition , the NEAC, the ROI, the RBA and the Discerning Eye Exhibitions. Sarah exhibits regularly with several galleries throughout the UK.
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With over 10 years of experience organizing art tours, and with part of our team, my daughters Anne and Amy, living in Europe and fluent in Italian and Spanish, we have the ability not only to maintain long term relationships with the owners and staff of our favorite venues, but to seek out and vet new and unique locations each year. We personally participate in every travel workshop to ensure the quality of the accommodations and cuisine as well as to coordinate the special needs of the art instruction program.

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