South of France painting holidays: Summer art courses on French Riviera, portrait drawing in Paris for adults, landscape painting classes for beginners to advanced students, short art holidays in Europe, summer vacation programs. Cours d'art à Paris pour adultes.
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.
Summer Songwriting Course with Mike Batt at French House Party, Carcassonne
Courses / Programs
• Recommended in the book “The 100 Best Worldwide Vacations to Enrich Your Life”, French House Party, based at a chic house on the outskirts of Carcassonne, South-West France offers all-inclusive residential tutored breaks.
• French House Party's 4-day Residential Summer Songwriting course features masterclasses led by one of contemporary music's most acclaimed and productive original musical lyricists – the internationally-successful British singer-songwriter / producer / arranger (and all-round remarkable Maestro!) - Mike Batt LVO.
• We are delighted to offer songwriters-in-residence a unique and exclusive opportunity to spend an extended weekend (Friday-Monday) with the legendary Mike Batt.
Mike's list of hits include the multi-million selling Bright Eyes from the film Watership Down (No. 1 in six countries for Art Garfunkel), A Winter's Tale for David Essex, The Phantom of the Opera title track for Andrew Lloyd-Webber's musical and countless songs for his 'discovery' Katie Melua, for whom he spent a decade composing and producing as her manager.
• French House Party offers the ultimate in customer care and personal attention during our residential courses which are led by superior and award-winning instructors. All classes are conducted in English.
• Situated in the Languedoc-Roussillon region, Carcassonne is only 50 miles from Toulouse International Airport. Ryanair also fly directly to Carcassonne from the UK, Ireland, Belgium, and other European airports.
Testimonial: "The whole weekend was heavenly.”
- Sally McDonald
French Summer Classes, Cannes - Summer Camps 2024 + ONLINE French Classes
Courses / Programs
• French Summer Classes is a summer French language school in Cannes, located on the French Riviera in the South of France.
• We offer French language programs for students of all ages: adults (business professionals, university students and individuals), teenagers and children (age 6+) coming as a family or individually.
• We teach students in groups according to their age and ability. This allows student-oriented teaching and the active participation of all the students during each lesson.
• Our French language program consists of morning language classes allowing the rest of the day for leisure and recreation. In the afternoon, you may take a French intensive course or participate in the various summer activities available in the area.
• Our immersion programs provide a pleasant way of learning French while enjoying your wonderful vacation in France.
• Our French summer course for adults is available to anyone over 16 years of age. It is the best choice if you want to improve your French and have free time to experience your beautiful surroundings and the French way of life. We also offer intensive French courses and one-to-one tuition.
Student Review: "I was very satisfied with my experience. The teachers took into consideration what I wanted to learn and incorporated my learning needs into the class curriculum.
Small class sizes provided good opportunity for discussion....Overall, this was a great experience and I would strongly recommend the school!"
- Stephanie, Canada
Summer French Courses for Adults in 2024: • General French course: 20hrs / week
• Intensive French Course: 30hrs / week
• Homestay program with a French host family: 20hrs / week or 30hrs / week
• Private French lessons (also available year-round)
• French for Families: Take French lessons at the same time as your child
Summer French Courses for Children & Teenagers:
• French for beginner students (ages 6-11)
• French for non-beginner students (ages 6-11)
• French for teenagers (ages 11-17)
• Private French lessons in Cannes (also available year-round)
• ONLINE French classes for students globally
P'tit Chef Academy is a traditional French cooking school located in Bayeux, Normandy in North-Western France. We offer French cooking courses and culinary workshops to teach you traditional French cuisine. Our classes allow you to use your own learning style to start at a basic level and progress up to a high standard. We help you to create a classic Normandie dish in one night.
The chef invites you to achieve your menu, with the delight of enjoying your own culinary success in a stylish personalised atmosphere. You will be awarded with a diploma and chef’s hat at the end of your course.
• Would you like to study at a prestigious culinary arts school in France this summer? Situated in Argenteuil near Paris. Ducasse Education was founded by Alain Ducasse - the legendary award-winning chef & restauranteur, whose restaurants had a total of 21 Michelin stars in 2014.
• In addition to our Argenteuil school, we also have a training center in Yssingeaux, in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.
• Ducasse Education offers discovery programs in English or French in summer and year-round for serious amateurs, career-changers or future entrepreneurs aiming to open a restaurant or other food-related service.
• The Summer and Spring Pastry Arts courses are intensive training programs which allow you to discover basic professional techniques and knowledge needed to enter in the professional world of culinary and pastry arts.
• French culinary students and professional chefs alike have benefited from the highest level of personal training offered through the programs of Alain Ducasse for the past 12 years.
• This is the same expertise that has created the long list of Michelin-starred restaurants that includes the Louis XV in Monaco, the Plaza Athenée in Paris and the Dorchester in London, among 25 other restaurants in 8 countries across the world.
French Pastry Campus (Summer & Spring Programs) • Taught in English
• 2-month skills-building training & a 1-month optional internship
• Summer Session in June-September
• Spring Session in March-May
Year-round Culinary / Pastry Arts Programs: • Culinary Arts Diploma
• Superior Culinary Arts Diploma
• Bachelor Degree in Culinary Arts
• Bachelor Degree in French Pastry Arts
• French Pastry Arts Diploma
• Superior French Pastry Arts Diploma
• French Chocolate & Confectionery Arts
• French Bakery Arts
Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art (PASCA) is a highly acclaimed international fine arts institution situated in the historic artists' colony of Pont-Aven, in Brittany, France. We offer summer intensive courses aimed at nourishing the students´ talent and expression as well as challenging students to experiment with new conceptual and technical approaches.
The setting offers artists stunning natural beauty, from wide, white sand beaches and dramatic coastal cliffs to rolling green hills marked by ancient stone walls, thatched roofed farmhouses and brilliantly colored flowers. Celtic traditions in music, dance, language and legends, and the French joie de vivre all combine to create an inescapable sense of place.
Advanced Summer School Contemporary Art Sessions based on a variety of subjects such as painting, photography, journaling, printmaking and mixed media.
Altiplano Training offers a unique French summer school for children and adults in Mens in the south east of France. Prefaucon Farm provides a stimulating, and friendly and fun environment which allows you to develop your linguistic ability. After your French lessons you will put what you learn into practice by living and eating with a French family, and learning about the French way of life. Mens is located 40min south of Grenoble and 2 hrs south of Lyon. Here you stay with a local family, discuss life & politics and farming and 'Europe', and enjoy the atmosphere and live music in the cafés. Adults can also take craft courses in pottery, felt-making, watercolour painting, painting furniture, organic cookery, medicinal plants and “green” construction techniques are all possible: all in French! Popular sports and activities include walking, mountain biking, windsurfing & kite surfing, horse riding and paragliding. Courses in these sports are also available.
A 5-day immersion course where you are immersed in French life and culture (7 nights accommodation).
Adults can study the French language with us or help out on the farm, or follow their own activity program.
Children are looked after by their own French language teacher and have their own program of activities and classes with local children, each day, so they learn to use the French language naturally.