Paint in Greece

with Alice Meyer-Wallace

Seven days filled with fun, food, and color

A weekend in the middle to explore on your own

email: alicemeyerwallace@yahoo.com

Poppies bloom on Paros in May  (Watercolor)

You may want to land in Athens and spend a day or so there before heading for the port city of Piraeus. There you will take a ferry to the island of Paros in the Cyclades. (Information about this connection is in the packet you will receive.) As an alternative, you can fly into Crete and take a ferry from there to Paros. In either case you may want to allow a few extra days for sight-seeing.

Instruction is available at all levels of experience. A graduate of The Rhode Island School of Design, Alice taught for many years at the Aegean Center of Fine Arts on Paros, as well as giving private watercolor instruction on Paros and in New York City.

After exploring and painting the island's amazingly varied landscape for several days, the group breaks for the weekend. Side trips, perhaps by ferry to other islands in the Aegean Sea, are optional. On Monday, you will resume painting.

No matter what level of painter you are, beginner, advanced amateur or expert, you will find much to captivate you. Your reward will be to bring home not only fond memories but bright mementoes done with your own hand.




Fishermen at work in Naoussa Port (Oil)

Fruits de Mer: the islands serve up an amazing variety of seafood, freshly caught in the morning. Oil from olive trees, some over 1000 years old, fresh produce and many herbs will appease an appetite worked up by hiking to your locale of choice for the morning or afternoon's painting session.

  • Walk the Byzantine Road, two miles of slabs laid down by monks in the 9th Century, past the groves of olive trees that they planted.
  • Sketch in a town with streets so narrow and steep that cars are left at the top of the hill, for pedestrians only.
  • Climb down into a marble quarry where the translucent stone for Napoleon's Tomb was hewn from deep within the earth.
  • Paint an ancient hillside monastery owned by a true eccentric.
  • Dance in a restaurant in a village where there are more goats than people.
  • View rock formations which time and water have sculpted into shapes suggesting marvelous beasts.






Croquet  (Watercolor)

Another must see is the Paros Archeological Museum in Paroikia, which sits next to the Church of 100 doors. The Museum is of course much smaller than the National Archeological Museum in Athens, but it has its own unique collection of Cycladic art through several millennia.

Evenings are for open air dining, wandering the labyrinth of streets in the towns (where there are still good bargains to be had) attending art openings, or just partying. Alice has a lot of friends on the island!



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