Come and see for yourself how the art of this ancient civilisation still resonates with us today, why the classic sculptures remain, in some ways, unsurpassed.  See how much they affected and influenced Renaissance art*, how proportion, design, and anatomical study were used to heighten the expressiveness of figurative sculpture. 

working-breakfastSculpt with us in our lovely open-air studio and apply what is learned to original sculptures.  See the sunset from the Rhodian Acropolis, at the foot of which, the city's ancient bronze foundries produced so many sculptures that even after Cassius had plundered it - in the 1^st century AD -  3,000 bronzes still remained. 

heliosView the site of the great Helios sculpture - one of the Seven Wonders of the World, created in 292 BC, the work of the Rhodian sculptor Chares of Lindos.   Spend a week on this extraordinary island which, as Myth has it, the Goddess Athena herself gave the divine gift of being “the first in all the Arts” and which, in ancient times, as inscriptions testify, the Rhodian State awarded special honour to visiting Artists, such as the title of euergetes (benefactor), giving the right of Rhodian citizenship to those of a foreign land.

~ Join us.  But look out Rhodes, we might be moving in ~

*Michaelangelo was one of the first Renaissance sculptors to view the newly unearthed Rhodian sculpture : The Laocoon Group, in 1506.  Describing it a “miraculous”, it had a profound effect on all his future work (The Dying Slave, The Rebellious Slave, St Matthew etc). He recognised it immediately from the Roman Historian, Pliny's description of it as “a work of art to be preferred above all else in painting and sculpture”, a description which had long fired the imagination of Renaissance artists, many of whom had made drawings suggesting what it might have been like.

(He was, in short, quite impressed.  So will you be.  And if it was good enough for Mickey then it's good enough for us)