Our Trips

Painting & Barging in Holland

Experience plein air painting and barging through Holland with pastel artist Lisa Regopoulos. Lisa will lead art demonstrations and plein air painting sessions capturing the picturesque canals and landscapes with tulips in full bloom! We’ll tour museums, local sites and enchanting villages and country sides dotted with windmills for inspiration. A highlight of our museum visits will be to the Rijksmuseum to see the first retrospective exhibit of Johannes Vermeer’s works and the largest gathering of his works ever. Ports on the trip include Amsterdam, Haarlem, Delft, Leiden, Rotterdam and Gouda, and a tour of the incredible Keukenhof Gardens, considered one of the most beautiful spring gardens in the world. We’ll spend seven nights on a 24-passenger, well-appointed barge The Fiep. We will travel the canals of Holland departing from the mooring in Amsterdam and paint in picturesque locations such as Haarlem, the Keukenhof Garden area, Rotterdam, Delft, Leiden and Gouda, taking advantage of the spectacular display of tulips in bloom for painting inspiration. We return to Amsterdam for a tour of the Vermeer exhibit and the second largest collection of Van Gogh’s paintings at the Kroller Muller Museum Not a painter? Not a problem! During painting sessions, non-painters will enjoy excursions in every city with plenty of options for sightseeing, walking tours, museum exploration and shopping at local markets.