When the world’s most famous artist comes to town you start to regret not sticking in at art class, but, here, Van Gogh travels so learn to paint on holiday.
You might instantly think that the Netherlands would be your first port of call.
And we have found a hotel where you can learn the secrets of Rembrandt.
The very same establishment, the 5* Pulitzer Hotel, which fellow travellers have advised has turned guests into budding Vincents.
Artugal for inner Vincents
Luxury Travel Advisor, well, advises us that the Pulitzer introduced a Van Gogh Art Programme a few years back.
So keep your ear to the ground (soz), and we will too, for whether they’re still churning out Van Goghs.
In the meantime we learn that amateur artists are brushing up on their depths of vision in Portugal.
The Hyatt Regency Lisbon is offering its guests a range of art classes.
And you can choose from an Abstract Oil Painting Workshop from £30 per person or Watercolour Landscape Workshop from £25 per person.
And our favourite, of course, Paint like Van Gogh Workshop from £30 per person.
Prices start at £294 per night based on 2 adults sharing a standard room with a queen bed and River View. Price based on October 2024 stay.
A National obsession
Now art need not be forbidding and I venture that it is the most accessible of pastimes.
Free in many museums with the chance to see the world’s foremost painters’ work up close and personal.
And which other discipline can we say that about?
All of which is why there is such excitement at the Van Gogh exhibition Poets and Lovers at the National Gallery, London.
Which is running from September 14 through to January 19 with tickets on sale now.
And boasting more than 60 of the Dutch geniuses.
With the National Gallery inviting us to get up close to his Starry Night over the Rhône and The Yellow House.
As well as the National’s own Sunflowers and Van Gogh’s Chair, among many others.
All as part of the museum’s 200th birthday celebrations (from £24).
Master the art
Now, if, the National Museum’s exhibition pricks your interest then, of course, you should make a Vincent pilgrimage to Amsterdam.
And immerse yourself in the Van Gogh museum.
And maybe even compare your new-found skills for his genre which you learned out in the Hyatt in Lisbon.
Because, despite what my old art teacher Joe Reilly might have said, back in the day.
There is an artist in all of us.
Van Gogh travels so learn to paint on holiday.
And I give you an original Murty… Mill in Tobago. Priceless!
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