Plein-air sessions across tea slopes and mist — bring a brush, leave with a series.
The landscapes, plants and animals of the Peak Wilderness are splendid subjects for painting and sketching, and they reward anyone willing to spend real time in front of them.
This is plein-air work, not studio reference. You set up on tea slopes, at forest edges and along the river, and you paint what the weather gives you that morning. Mist arrives and rearranges the composition; you adapt or you wait.
Poets and writers use the same sessions differently — same locations, same long sittings, different tools. Come with your own materials and your own project.
Working outdoors on location, not from photographs.
Tea slopes, forest edge, riverbank and high ground.
Sessions built around light, so mornings and late afternoons.
Same locations, whatever medium you work in.
Weather that redraws the valley every twenty minutes. Difficult, and worth it.
Tree ferns, mosses and deadwood, for anyone who prefers to work close.
Falls and stream cuts — the hardest thing here to get right.
Tell us your dates, your medium and whether you are coming alone or with a group.
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A team of scientists, conservationists and environmental specialists working on eco-living practices, environmental conservation, and sustainable agro-leisure in Sri Lanka’s Peak Wilderness.