Painting holidays and courses are a great way of either learning a new skill or improving an existing one. The art schools detailed here tend to specialise in offering a range of art holidays - it could be painting, sculpture, drawing... a whole range. If you don't see the particular topic you're interested in, but the school seems interesting, we recommend you still send them and enquiry and ask as they tend to be personal, flexible operations.

So too, if you're an experience artist, you'll find many of the painting vacations on offer will let you use the facilities, but not take the tuition thereby reducing the price. And if your partner doesn't want to partake of the art course, but does want to be involved in the holidays...no problem, they can go as a non-participating partner.

To read about what to expect on your course, take alook at this overview.

We currently work with a number of art schools in England, France, Italy, South Africa, Scotland and Spain, although as time goes on the destinations available will increase. If you'd like to be kept informed about new painting destinations and courses as they arrive, sign up for our newsletter. It's free, bi-monthly and profiles new painting holidays as they arrive.

Please use the following box to discover a variety of companies providing art courses and holidays: