Our Artists

Astrid ten Bosch picked up watercolor as a student and never put it down; it dries fast, it packs light, and it turns a train platform into something worth stopping for. That habit turned into real teaching work: she now leads watercolor and travel illustration through weekend courses, workshops, and retreats across the Netherlands and abroad.

Her background in product design engineering gives her a technical foundation as a teacher: she knows perspective inside out, and how to break a scene down into shapes and values for a student, not just when she's painting one herself.

Meanwhile, she's also built a separate practice as a strategic business illustrator, helping organizations turn complicated ideas and visions into pictures people can relate to.

She's sketched her way through Scandinavia and Mexico, and packs more sketchbooks than she needs every time. Students who've sat through her workshops describe her as calm and clear, equally suited to someone who's never held a brush and someone who's painted for years. When she's not working in watercolor, she'll pick up lino print or clay instead, chasing whatever lets her get her hands dirty.

For the Uzbekistan journey, Astrid brings a teaching style built on patience & breaking things down: she meets each painter exactly where their skill sits, and lets the rest follow.

Originally trained as an architect, Marius is an ink and watercolour artist who has been sketching all over the world for over three years. After a long period of sketching in Australia and New Zealand, he traveled back to his home in the south of France by crossing all of Asia and Europe overland across more than 40,000km, capturing each place directly on-location with his paint and some sketchbooks.

Along the way, his instructional videos and courses on urban sketching have amassed a following of over 400,000 people online. Whether capturing a busy street corner, a quaint little village or a sweeping landscape, Marius likes to break down every scene into simple, approachable steps so that anyone, at any level, can learn to see and paint the world around them.