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PAINT SAFARI / March

Paint Safari March

Here in the region of Los Vélez we live in a painter’s landscape. The naturally occurring forms and rhythms, pigmented earth and clear blue skies are already imbued with the rich gestural qualities of abstract modernism. The landscape invokes memories of the paintings by David Bomberg, Ivon Hitchens, Paul Nash and Georgia O’Keeffe.

And there is a drama in this space, as the sun’s shadow cuts the mountains, the tangible sense of wilderness, the sense of history, the feeling of awe, all inspire emotive responses to the landscape redolent of so many artists before us. Caspar David Friedrich, John Sel Cotman, J.M.W Turner and John Robert Cozens.

Cortijada Los Gázquez is offering the opportunity to be a painter’s pathfinder. Your guide, artist Simon Beckmann, with his intimate knowledge and love of this landscape, will take you to the special places here, places inaccessible by conventional means and unknown by any other. This is a unique opportunity to understand the sights before your eyes and to have the space and time to paint and draw them.

For although we are accustomed to separate nature and human perception into two realms, they are in fact, indivisible. Before it can ever be a repose for the senses, landscape is the work of the mind. It’s scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock.

Simon Schama ‘Landscape and Memory’

This is a creative and cultural holiday that will leave your senses stretched and fulfilled and your artwork scaling new heights.

In the morning you will be taken by Land Rover to one of the numerous, fabulous and virtually unknown locations to spend the day painting. As you ’set up’ for the morning’s work one of our team erects the awning above the table and chairs, and prepares a delicious lunch. Afterwards you can return, uninterrupted, to your art work. Advice and tuition is at hand should you wish, otherwise you will have the time and space to explore your own creative endeavor.

Early evening will see you returning to Cortijada Los Gázquez with your days work. Here you will have the opportunity to rest, freshen up, and enjoy an evening meal amongst our small community of professional artists responding to this environment in similar ways as part of Los Gázquez’s Joya residency. Evenings are convivial and stimulating and represent an equal part in your personal growth as a landscape artist.

Paint Safari is a unique creative break and numbers are limited to a maximum of three at any one time. The price is all inclusive, with collection from the airport and carriage to Cortijada Los Gázquez eco-guest house. Here there are cool and comfortable bedrooms with attached bathrooms, an art library and large sitting room linked to a walled garden as well as fifty acres of almond orchards at your disposal.

The kitchen at Cortijada Los Gázquez creates meals from locally produced food. It’s style is simple and hearty, it’s origins migrate from India, across North Africa, through the Mediterranean and settle in Andalucía.

Clare Price TalkIn addition you can enjoy small and informal talks from our Joya: arte + ecología resident artists in the evenings and have access to their studio. They in turn will be happy to impart their knowledge and experience as artists, making, curating and exhibiting their work.

For more information contact Simon

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PAINT SAFARI in the Sierra María-Los Vélez

Paint Safari 4

Here in the region of Los Vélez we live in a painter’s landscape. The naturally occurring forms and rhythms, pigmented earth and clear blue skies are already imbued with the rich gestural qualities of abstract modernism. The landscape invokes memories of the paintings by David Bomberg, Ivon Hitchens, Paul Nash and Georgia O’Keeffe.

And there is a drama in this space, as the sun’s shadow cuts the mountains, the tangible sense of wilderness, the sense of history, the feeling of awe, all inspire emotive responses to the landscape redolent of so many artists before us. Caspar David Friedrich, John Sel Cotman, J.M.W Turner and John Robert Cozens.

Cortijada Los Gázquez is offering the opportunity to be a painter’s pathfinder. Your guide, artist Simon Beckmann, with his intimate knowledge and love of this landscape, will take you to the special places here, places inaccessible by conventional means and unknown by any other. This is a unique opportunity to understand the sights before your eyes and to have the space and time to paint and draw them.

For although we are accustomed to separate nature and human perception into two realms, they are in fact, indivisible. Before it can ever be a repose for the senses, landscape is the work of the mind. It’s scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock.

Simon Schama ‘Landscape and Memory’

This is a creative and cultural holiday that will leave your senses stretched and fulfilled and your artwork scaling new heights.

In the morning you will be taken by Land Rover to one of the numerous, fabulous and virtually unknown locations to spend the day painting. As you ’set up’ for the morning’s work one of our team erects the awning above the table and chairs, and prepares a delicious lunch. Afterwards you can return, uninterrupted, to your art work. Advice and tuition is at hand should you wish, otherwise you will have the time and space to explore your own creative endeavor.

Early evening will see you returning to Cortijada Los Gázquez with your days work. Here you will have the opportunity to rest, freshen up, and enjoy an evening meal amongst our small community of professional artists responding to this environment in similar ways as part of Los Gázquez’s Joya residency. Evenings are convivial and stimulating and represent an equal part in your personal growth as a landscape artist.

Paint Safari is a unique creative break and numbers are limited to a maximum of three at any one time. The price is all inclusive, with collection from the airport and carriage to Cortijada Los Gázquez eco-guest house. Here there are cool and comfortable bedrooms with attached bathrooms, an art library and large sitting room linked to a walled garden as well as fifty acres of almond orchards at your disposal.

The kitchen at Cortijada Los Gázquez creates meals from locally produced food. It’s style is simple and hearty, it’s origins migrate from India, across North Africa, through the Mediterranean and settle in Andalucía.

In addition you can enjoy small and informal talks from our resident artists in the evenings and access to their studio. They in turn will be happy to impart their knowledge and experience as artists, making, curating and exhibiting their work.

Paint Safari (short break) three days / three nights including airport collection and return 700 euros per person.

Paint Safari (longer break) seven days / seven nights including airport collection and return 1500 euros per person.

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PAINT SAFARI / July

Paint-Safari-July

This month we are going to take trips beyond Gabar to the dry lands, the ‘alto plano’, the high plains to the north west of Cortijada Los Gázquez.
This is a beautiful dramatic landscape fringed to the north by the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas and to the south by the Sierra María-Los Vélez. The land between undulates in the direction of the old Nazarid Kingdom of Granada. The colours of the fields are punctuated by solitary oak trees and long abandoned cortijos. On the ground Great Bustards call while above eagles hunt and vultures forever search for carrion.
To discover more about PAINT SAFARI look here… http://www.losgazquez.com/en/paintsafari/
If you would like to join us contact Simon [email protected]
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PAINT SAFARI this February…

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We are actually doing a bit of a discount on this one. The idea being to encourage folk to come ‘out of season’ so to speak. It’s a great time of year for landscape painters, the sun is low, shadows are long and snow lies in the sunshine on the mountain tops.

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Hill & Track…

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South of Vélez Rubio the geology changes from sedimentary limestone and clay and becomes this blue/purple schist. I promise I have not played in Photoshop, this is the colour of the land. This was last Friday morning!

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PAINT SAFARI - OCTOBER

Paint-Safari-october

We just had to let previous and potentially new guests for PAINT SAFARI know that October is looking fantastic. The sun is sharp and low, shadows are long and the sky is intensly blue.

As our friend Pepe says ‘this is the best month to paint landscape’.

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PAINT SAFARI / locus

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PAINT SAFARI - September

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Cortijada Los Gázquez in THE SUNDAY TIMES / Travel

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Paint Safari (opportunities)…

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Over on the website we have just posted some opportunities to participate in our Paint Safari. We are calling it an opportunity as the idea is to reduce the price to encourage people to participate outside of the conventional season.

This is an extremely dramatic landscape and the autumn through to spring months, with the sun lower in the sky, affords a far more exciting painting experience. The photo above is taken from Los Gázquez in February. The days can be warm but nights are cold, however, with a log fire and underfloor heating throughout the cortijo you will be more than comfortable. The dates are…

8th-15th January 2011 / 19th-26th February 2011 / 9th-16th May 2011

However a Paint Safari is a bespoke painters experience and can be booked at any time with prior notice. Contact Simon here or on our website…

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