The Artist’s Sketchbook: A Personal Journey to Creative Freedom

Artist and educator Aris Moore will be leading a five-day sketchbook and drawing retreat at Hortulanus, our villa set on twenty hectares in the hills of Seggiano, Tuscany.

About Aris Moore

Aris Moore has been a teacher for nearly thirty years and an artist for as long as she can remember.  She lives and works in the seaside town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  Aris shares her time between teaching  private lessons to students of all ages at a local art and music school and as a working artist.  Her work has been shown throughout the United States and art fairs throughout Europe and Asia. She has also been included in many publications.  When Aris is not teaching, in her studio or drawing at local coffee shops she is spending time with her twenty year old twins August and Owen and their very talkative cat Theo.  She also enjoys time in…