Residential Workshops & Courses in South West France

Escape to the peaceful, green, rolling countryside of South West France for a 5-day creative residential workshop. Whichever one you choose you’ll find the teaching first-class, the cooking fresh and superb, the accommodation luxurious and the ambience inviting and friendly.

At Les Soeurs Anglaises, we specialise in providing our guests with memorable, life-affirming experiences in their chosen subjects. The new 2012 programme includes the most popular favourites like Mixed Textiles and Knitting, together with new excursions into Photography, Botanical Illustration and Willow Sculptures. These are all creative master-classes, run by leaders in their field and delivered at a comfortable pace to make them both challenging and fun.

The 'domestic arrangements' have been streamlined, and expanded based on empirical experience. You can choose different levels of accommodation to suit your needs and your budget, and as you can see from the unsolicited testimonials we have collected since we started in 2005, past participants have been delighted with their experiences.

The food is fresh and plentiful, broadly based on recipes influenced by Elizabeth David and Otto Lenghi; and Le Patron, wine-connoisseur Michael Armitage, makes it his business to ensure that fine wines are always available each evening.

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