Timetable and Fees
Dates Wood of Shaws
Sun 6 –Fri 11 April Portraiture & Figure Drawing/Painting
Sun 11 –Fri 16 May
The Freshness of Spring
Sun 15 – Fri 20 June
Early Summer Painting Holiday
Sun 27 Jul – Fri 1 Aug
S
ummer Painting Holiday Sun 24 – Fri 29 Aug
Late Summer Painting Holiday
Sun 7 - Fri 12 Sept
Shades of Autumn
Dates Elsewhere
Sun 16 – Sat 22 March
Balmoral Castle
Sat 24 – Sat 31 May
Tuscany
Sun 5 – Fri 10 Oct
St Fillans, Perthshire
Tue 22 Apr – Fri 2 May
‘Queen Victoria’, Canary Islands Cruise
Fri 2 – Tue 6 May
‘Queen Victoria’, Northern Europe Cruise
Wed 2 – Thu 17 Jul
‘QE2’, Mediterranean Splendour Cruise
Fees - Wood of Shaws
5 day residential £498 non residential £235
Discount : 10% For room sharing or for non-painting partners. Please forward a completed booking form together with a deposit cheque for £100 to ‘Michael Kitchen’ The balance is due at least 4 weeks prior to the holiday. Contact details: Michael Kitchen, Wood of Shaws Studio & Gallery, Alvah, Banff, AB45 3UL Scotland. (Tel: 01261 821223) www.woodofshaws.co.uk
Fees - Balmoral Castle
Full board
£690
Fee includes tuition, transportation, all meals and accommodation (Guests arriving at Aberdeen Airport or Rail Station may be met).
To make a booking contact Gary Marsden, Visitor Enterprise Manager on 013397 42534 e.mail : info@balmoralcastle.com, website : www.balmoralcastle.com
(After you make a reservation, please contact Michael for an introductory chat. He will be delighted to hear from you).
Fees - Perthshire
Tuition & management £265
Please forward a completed booking form together with a deposit cheque of £100 to ‘Michael Kitchen’. The balance is due 4 weeks prior to the holiday. Non painting partners (*npps) are eligible for a discount of £20. Four Seasons Hotel
Hotel accommodation £405 (discounts apply for non-painting partners (npps) and for those room sharing)
Chalet accommodation £349 (Discount for npps)
Payment to the hotel must be made in full at least 4 weeks prior to the holiday - no deposit is required. For enquiries about the hotel contact Andrew Low, the Proprietor, Four Seasons Hotel, St Fillans, Perthshire, PH6 2NF, Scotland. (Tel : 01764 685333)
Within 8 weeks of a course or holiday commencing, deposits and fees are non-refundable unless the place can be re-allocated . The right to cancel a course or holiday is reserved and in that unlikely event all monies paid will be returned in full. A receipt will be sent confirming your reservation.
Guests are strongly advised to take out holiday insurance on UK holidays as well as those abroad. Insurance cover for CANCELLATION should be included (illness, even to a close relative at the last minute has occurred and prevented someone from attending). Peter Kirk of ‘Tunisia First’ can provide weekly cover for any of our courses and holidays at very reasonable cost Tel: 01276 600100).
Fees – Cruise ships
Incorporated in fare paid to Cunard Shipping Company
Reports or reviews on courses at Wood of Shaws are featured in the ‘Artists & Illustrators’ magazine published in February 1998 and August 2002 and the ‘Leisure Painter’ in January 1999 and August 2004.