The Morris Graves Estate

The former estate of the world-renowned visionary painter, Morris Graves, is exquisitely beautiful and inspiring with streaming light, lush lawns, ponds, private patios and expansive areas to work at your easels, tables and to gather together inside and out for individual and group instruction and discussion. This course will focus on the unfolding of visual stories and personal images through drawing and painting... More

The former estate of the world-renowned visionary painter, Morris Graves, is exquisitely beautiful and inspiring with streaming light, lush lawns, ponds, private patios and expansive areas to work at your easels, tables and to gather together inside and out for individual and group instruction and discussion. This 4 day course will focus on the unfolding of visual stories and personal images through drawing and painting and is an exciting and enriching way to expand your unique creativity, imagination, confidence, style and palette and to explore the wonders and special qualities of your art materials. The emphasis on personalized instruction, the freedom to follow your individual artistic path and the building of knowledge and skill within a creative community is the foundation of this retreat. You will have the opportunity to use the finest array of paints, pigments, pencils and papers. This is the perfect setting for ‘Visionary Landscape, Altered Realities and Magical Realism’. There are many people who have expressed their desire to attend An Artists' Retreat and I have decided, during these challenging times, to give a gift of $100 toward a retreat at The Morris Graves Estate.  Now, more than ever, we need to remain hopeful, creative, loving and healthy.


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"I would emphatically recommend An Artists' Retreat with Anna Rhodes to anyone at any level of experience. The techniques and approaches to art that Anna uses are invaluable to the creative insight that artists require....." More

"I would emphatically recommend An Artists' Retreat with Anna Rhodes to anyone at any level of experience. The techniques and approaches to art that Anna uses are invaluable to the creative insight that artists require. An important feature of Anna's instruction is learning new ways to handle wonderful art materials. Anna's teaching technique can be described as empathetic. She takes the time to initially set up a lesson with supplemental intellectual materials that remind the artist of the wellspring of creativity, creating a “soundboard” for their own experience. She then guides the student through basic warm-ups and fundamentals that are essential to the layperson as well as the experienced artist. From that point, the work is generally bore from a formatted task which requires the student to work within a boundary, but extrapolate their own intuition. The student is taught instinctive approaches while being gently guided. Anna will demonstrate a technique or usage of a medium that is both introductory, but novel and insightful. An ample amount of high-quality and non-toxic supplies are made available for students to experiment with. Anna will make the student feel comfortable with the medium and trust his or her own creative impulse. The environment offered at Cavallo Point reinforces and nurtures the creativity that is essential for the experience. The hotel offers a wide variety of relaxation techniques and activities that create an overall peace of mind, that can foster the ideas that are presented in the art course. Everything from the hotel amenities to the meals that are served makes the attendee feel as if they are removed from their everyday experience. Anna's art course, coupled with the Cavallo Point environment, will create an active an insightful experience that will genuinely reinforce the technical skill and intellectual mastery of the student's art. I was carefully critical of my participation and was certainly won over-far past my expectations. It was one of the best experiences in art instruction I have had. " Hide

— Jonathan Baker, Artist, California