Visual Arts Crete

24/10/2022

Someone is trying to set up a fake profile using my name. Please ignore any friend requests from Janice Hunter until this is dealt with.

11/01/2020

These drawings are from 1998/9 - made following the tragic drowning of a local fisherman - why do i show them now ? A significant disturbing loss.
Janice and I have just returned from renewed connections to Cairo - the glorious city we love and wonderful close friends - all this goes in the significant box . We are still on Crete to welcoming guests to our accommodation and Art Studios - but not after April in 2020.

27/11/2018

2018 - many guests came to stay with us this year -
'they came as strangers but left as friends'.
- among these friends were student artists - painters and potters.
What riches they brought to and created in our studios.
Our love and very best wishes for this winter and Christmas time with hopes for good things for you all in 2019.
Janice and Tim

20/02/2018

Hello Everyone - we are back using fb after a period away - family and friends telling us we need to get it together ! - and photos from GISS 1998 just tipped the balance - thanks Max.
Our studios are busy and lively with students booked in from April. Also our airbnb accommodation is up and running again after 2 great years, meeting wonderful folk from around the world. ......a wave from the edge of the Libyan Sea, Crete
Go well
Janice and Tim

23/08/2017

We are busy with drawing painting and ceramics at our studios LithinonKastellosRethymnoCrete. Took time out to visit friend Felicity on south coast - warm ochre and green.

18/09/2016

We have had so many wonderful guests staying in our 2 self catering accommodations - thank you everyone for coming and sharing your lives - a real privilege to meet you - come again !!
Check out airbnb 'Lithinon' Kastellos Rethymno Crete.

18/09/2016

VisualArtsCrete and Verdaxis Ceramics atelier are planning combined courses for 2017

21/08/2016

One of the 10 is Balos Crete - easily accessible from Lithinon, Kastellos and visualartscrete classes and courses work in other local and remarkable locations - contact us for 2017 - you are welcome !!

Some places in the world have waters so crystal clear you can see the bottom even at deep parts. Below are the most amazing of those places!

23/05/2016

22/05/2016

In 1969 in the village of Armeni Crete, Greek archaeologists have unearthed a new necropolis... (english subtitles) __________________ Canon Ixus 860i

21/05/2016

Visual Art Crete classes and courses for 2016 .
We offer drawing, painting and mixed media courses to suit all levels of experience and interest in our Art studios at Lithinon (the stone place) , Kastellos, Rethymnon, Crete.
Contact us direct through facebook or through the VAC website link.

10/05/2016

Tonight GMT 21.00 - pass the word around/share - Thanks Tim and Janice

07/05/2016

17/04/2016

Our home and work is to be featured on UK TV Channel 4 - More4

HOMES BY THE MED - CRETE

Tuesday 10 May 21.00 GMT -
The 4th of 6 programmes beginning 19 April at 21.00 GMT

Production company - Truenorth Productions

12/04/2016

LITHINON - our stone place on the Greek island of Crete - has been called dynamic and a creative artistic sanctuary - there a 2 Art studios and 2 individual self catering accommodation studio apartments to rent.
VISUALARTSCRETE - we run Art courses and classes here. See check website and please share this page.
Tim has been immersed in a book written by Nan Shepherd in which she reveals her beautiful and spiritual association with the Cairn Gorm Mountains in Scotland. (written in 1945 - with a brilliant introduction written by Robert Macfarlane)
" the eye sees what it did not see before or sees in a new way what it didn't see before..."
" seeing landscape - not solely its exterior ........ but for profound interior mysteries and history "
" the body and substance of colour and light and air "
" the traffic between the outer visible shell of the land and the inner landscape of the spirit."

These are just some of the touchstones which underlie our teaching.
WELCOME TO KASTELLOS RETHYMNO CRETE

04/03/2016

VISUAL ARTS CRETE, our home and studios , LITHINON in Kastellos, Rethymno ,Crete have been selected by TRUE NORTH PRODUCTIONS to be included in BBC channels 4's forthcoming series on Homes by the Med, their sequel to the very popular Homes by the Sea , (UK).
Homes by the Med is due to be screened in April 2016.
TRUE NORTH were not only interested in the renovation, interiors and individuality of our project but also in our work as artists and teachers.
The UK company SPIDER , accompanied by the series producer and production assistant came 10 days ago with their camera 'drone' to film the exterior of our complex LITHINON (the stone place) and fly filming the landscape from a high vantage point with views to the sea and mountains.
Last Monday, 29 February, the film crew, producer, assistants and the series presenter, Charlie Luxton, came to LITHINON for the whole day to shoot detail and talk to Janice and Tim.
We all had a fabulous lunch at our local Castello Taverna, where Vasilis and Katerina's wonderful local homemade food was enjoyed by all and the subject of detailed filming.
We all then went to the vantage point where Janice and Tim instructed Charlie in the technique of landscape pencil and charcoal drawing .
We are much indebted to production assistant Keeley Lane for holding the whole visit together

28/09/2015

Congratulations to Mark and Joanna! Yesterday we had a wonderful, creative wedding celebration/art workshop in Elounda. (East of Crete). The paintings shown are by the bride and groom. Many more will follow as they come in from the wedding guests. Thanks to all for such an enthusiastic response to the day. XX

03/09/2015

Visual Arts Crete visited an exhibition of recent works by our good friend and artist Evi Tsana - at The Garage in Rethymno. The exhibition "Second Chance", is running until 6th September and you should try not to miss it. Included is Evi's rationale for these works. We were struck by the power of this group of small shrines - constructed using found materials, small icons and objects reflecting the personal space they may inhabit.