THE 2024 ART RETREAT on HYDRA with ESTE MACLEOD

For many artists, for hundreds of years, a stay on Hydra, the enchanting, some say magical, Aegean island, was a significant part of how their art was created.

We’re choosing to be there, for that reason… the richness of the artistic legacy… and for the chance that such exceptional surroundings will be your muse, too.

On Hydra, writers, painters, songsters, musicians and dreamers of all types, found a place that inspired them. From its shores, looking out to the Aegean or inward to their artistic dreams, poetry, novels, avant-garde texts, masterpieces in paint and word, emerged. Be there, with us, and find your own threads of inspiration. 

(a big thank you to wordsmith Shelley Kenigsberg for this lovely description of artistic life on Hydra ... a good place to mention that Shelley will hold a writing retreat here in late August 2024)
 

The Background

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Anna lived on Hydra for two wonderful years, and during some of that time worked as an arts instructor.

Esté and Anna have been presenting Art and Yoga Retreats in Sri Lanka (202), and Bali (2022,'23), and now we are thrilled be able to bring two lifetimes of experience to this fabulous week on Hydra - at the very best time of the year.

It's the end of summer, the locals are relaxed, you've arrived onto one of Greece's most picturesque islands - one with no vehicular traffic, only donkeys, water taxis and meandering footpaths - and you have ahead of you a week of making art with Esté MacLeod.

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With the water still deliciously comfortable for swimming, cool evenings exploring the many charming seaside tavernas, and quay-side accommodation overlooking the famous port of Hydra.

We can't wait to share the magic of Hydra with you!