The session is built around a genuinely free way of painting, where colour and water are left to blend before the picture is gradually brought into focus. Subjects are drawn from Italy's Mediterranean landscape — lemons, poppy fields, sunlit hillsides — and the process suits complete beginners as well as more practised hands. With a maximum of four guests in a private atelier, guidance stays close and personal throughout, and the session can be followed in Italian, English or German, led by an artist trained in Germany who moves comfortably between all three languages.

You leave with a finished watercolour of your own making, along with a clearer sense of how much can be done with just paper, colour and water. Everything you need is provided, no experience is required, and the small group size means the pace can adapt to you