Welcome to The New Julias Artworkshop

Contact us: Tel: (+34) 952 411 404 or UK: 0208 133 5026 or use our contact form

We are also available via skype and our contact name is juliaholley (skype help)

We have moved the workshop from the Coast to the Countryside! For all sorts of reasons, not least of all to escape the ‘busyness’ of a major coastal town.
We have replaced the hustle and bustle with ultimate peace and quiet, broken only by the chirruping of the birdies and the croaking of the frogs!
The new workshop is spacious and airy and it is as close as you will get to painting outdoors with oils without getting bugs stuck to your wet picture!

The New Julias Artworkshop

Around you at the workshop you will find all the glory of Mediterranean plants and flowers, the vibrant bougainvillea with its magentas and purples to Stephanotis and Jasmine with their white flowers and heady scents.
The warm climate allows us to grow tropical plants for which we have created watery corners to provide humidity .

Frog pond, created by using an antique 3 metre TV satellite dish.

Tropical plants thrive around a fountain.

The frog pond, an old original, now redundant TV satellite dish which is indestructible, non recyclable, 3 metres across and on the face of it environmentally unfriendly to dispose of. It filled up with rain and gave us the idea of using it as a small pond. It has been the epicentre of frog breeding in the past year since we topped it up with water and added a few plants. All shapes and sizes of frog have bred here, we have seen several generations during the year from little tadpoles to tadpoles with legs to froglets with tails and finally frogs, all at the same time!

In the spring time, when they are all calling, we have to make them jump in the water to gain 15 minutes reprieve from their shouting! We added a couple of goldfish to keep the mosquito larvae clear and similarly they were a match made in heaven and have bred at least 3 times this year. All in all, a visit to Julias artworkshop will be something to remember as a pleasure, not only for the success of your painting!

Situated behind the country town of Alhaurin de la Torre in a quiet country lane, Julias Artworkshop has a taste of old Spain. Set in mature leafy semi- tropical gardens with an abundance of orange trees and Mediterranean flowers , you will enjoy the shady terraces and water features, peaceful atmosphere, scents and inspirational views, whilst you paint.

Despite its rural location, a new system of modern roads makes the new Julias Artworkshop easily accessible from the coastal towns of Malaga and the airport, Torremolinos, Benalmadena, Fuengirola, Marbella, Puerto Banus via the A366 from the N340 coast road. Towns further inland such as Alhaurin el Grande, Coin and Cartama are on the A366 Malaga –Ronda road.

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