Karla's teaching style is down to earth and she brings the characters to life!"
Would you recommend this workshop / lecuture to others?
* Yes, again and again.
FULL NAME & LOCATION *
Sue Bell, Benissa
SPANISH FINE ARTS LECTURE * VELAZQUEZ
Karla's teaching style is down to earth and she brings the characters to life!"
Would you recommend this workshop / lecuture to others?
* Yes, again and again.
FULL NAME & LOCATION *
Sue Bell, Benissa
VELAZQUEZ
Karla brought him to life with her infectious enthusiasm, creating a passion within me to discover more. I cannot wait to visit the Prado again and immerse myself absorbing his works with my new found knowledge. I have learnt so much and am hungry for more."
What elements did you like about the teaching style of Karla Darocas?
* Her passion and enthusiasm
Would you recommend this workshop / lecture to others? * Absolutely
FULL NAME & LOCATION * Sue Martin, Pedreguer
LETTER ABOUT LECTURE ON SOROLLA
Dear Karla
Thank you for your very interesting talk at the recent Anglo Spanish Assoc. meeting on Sorolla
The presentation was very informative and it was a great pleasure to have had the opportunity to see such a wide range of his work about which I knew nothing.
I wish I'd found a seat nearer the front !
John G. Deacon
Jávea
Thank you for your very interesting talk at the recent Anglo Spanish Assoc. meeting on Sorolla
The presentation was very informative and it was a great pleasure to have had the opportunity to see such a wide range of his work about which I knew nothing.
I wish I'd found a seat nearer the front !
John G. Deacon
Jávea
LETTER ABOUT LECTURE ON SOROLLA
22nd September 2015
Dear Karla,
Wow and again wow!
What a wonderfully interesting talk on Sorolla you gave to the Anglo Spanish Association yesterday evening.
Many of us struggle to understand the subtleties of the development of an artist. What you gave us was a lucid, and well illustrated, talk on the progress of his abilities and career. For example I especially remember him being the first to use a white background.
I look forward to hearing more of your talks, lectures and tuitions.
With very best regards Keith Hyde,
Javea, 2015.
LETTER ABOUT LECTURE ON SOROLLA
Thanks for the lecture on Sorolla, and I am sure we will be asking you to return in our next years programme. Everybody I have spoken to since Monday has said how much they enjoyed your lecture. so thank you very much for being so understanding when we had to hurry you towards the end. Your expertise on Sorrolla's life and work was both extensive and fascinating and it was interesting to be shown how his technique changed and grew during his life.
On a personal note, I very much enjoyed our conversations, both before the meeting and afterwards at La Boheme. I look forward to meeting you again, and once more I thank you for the excellent, interesting and informative tour de force.
Yours aye,
David
David Decker
President
Anglo Spanish Association Costa Blanca
Photography Training Testimonial
After just a couple of hours on this course I had learnt so much that I am planning trips just to take my camera out. There was lots of personal attention from Karla and loads of ideas of simple things to try that were really effective.
Karla Darocas's teaching style is easy to understand but inspiring. Lots of personal attention in a small group.
I would Absolutely recommend Karla Darocas teaching and events to others and I already have!"
* Christine Wood of Javea
Photography Training Testimonial
It was a fantastic sunny day and Karla was very friendly and informative. She taught with enthusiasm on how to take photos by looking at the beauty of things around us and applying the principles of harmony, colour, form, texture and lighting, etc.
We first walked through the old town of Jalon taking photos of buildings, churches, ornate objects, etc to name a few. We then walked on in to the surrounding countryside taking pictures of the beautiful views of the Jalon Valley where we were also able to capture some of the beautiful almond blossom, which Jalon is renowned for.
I would certainly recommend Karla’s photo walks as it is a great way to meet other people and a fun way to learn how to take better photos.
I feel I received some great photography tips and my photo taking has much improved only after a few short hours.
Shirley Renouf
Orba, Alicante
Shirley Renouf
Orba, Alicante
2014 LECTURES AND TRIP
“I saw an advertisement for Appreciation of Spanish Art in the Round Town News. The course was based on the Spanish Masters including Sorolla, who painted here in Javea. I love visiting art galleries but I had no understanding of how to interpret the paintings.
Karla's classes opened up a whole new way of looking at art. Karla is a enthusiastic teacher and her enthusiasm is contagious. Thank you Karla for making the course so enjoyable.
RE: Madrid & Toledo Trip 2014
Wonderful trip, great experience and good company. Take 7 women who do not know each other but have a shared interest in art and put them on a minibus van to Madrid and the journey is going to be noisy, full of laughter and take no time at all. Karla even provided the nibbles and water.
The walking art tour was informative, quite hectic as Karla ensured that we were kept fully occupied but it was great fun.
Everything was well organised and all we had to do was enjoy ourselves, which we did.”
Maureen Luxton * Javea
2014 MADRID & TOLEDO TRIP
I recently had a great few days in Madrid and Toledo with a lovely group of women. We were enjoying the fine art galleries of Madrid and it was so nice to have everything arranged for us by Karla Darocas.
There was so much packed into each day not just to see paintings but all sorts of other places of interest and interesting historical facts. It really felt like a week worth of events and a great way to get to know Madrid and Toledo.
Karla Darocas, fine arts educator and tour guide was so entertaining and enthusiastic, it was quite contagious. Trudi van Dorp - our van driver - was wonderful as well, keeping the group together with her own injection of energy and fun.
I can't say I that I have done so much and seen so much in such a short space of time for years!
Gaynor Crighton
2014 MADRID & TOLEDO TRIP
Having attended Karla’s very informative series of lectures, I was delighted to be able to join the trip to Madrid to see some of the masterpieces “for real".
The trip was so much more than just art.
We had a very comfortable drive up to Madrid and the hotel was in a very central location.
There was lots of walking, lots of museums and enough stops for coffee and cake to keep us all going.
We were fortunate to see two Sorolla exhibitions as well which was amazing.
The return trip via Toledo was very interesting. Lots of different things to see there as well as art .. the marzipan was a bonus!
Thoroughly fun and educational few days away and I would recommend any art lover/city break lover to go.
Thanks Karla and the other ladies for making the experience such a happy one.
Rebecca Kerr
Javea (part-time)
2014 LECTURES
The reason I joined the course was my love of art, although not really knowing anything about it. Also Salvador Dali was included in the list of Masters to be studied so I had no option but to sign up, did I!
The first day was an overview of the course, and already I felt out of my depth, but each week Karla explained things so clearly and in a 'down to earth' manner that I began to appreciate just how amazing these artists were. The paintings really came to life and I feel that in the six weeks of the course I have learned more about art than I have in the whole of my 66 years!
Karla's enthusiasm and knowledge of the subject is outstanding and captured the imagination of the whole class.
Eileen Jackson
Tech Training Testimonial
I have known Karla for over 16 years, having met her through the Women in Business Club. I am always amazed by her wide variety of knowledge in subjects including art, marketing, and technology. She has supported and helped me with her computer expertise.
In 2009, she built me a website for my business and taught me how to manage it. Thanks to her great tutoring skills and advice, I am able to make tweaks to it myself. However, she is always on hand to help me if needed and has done so on numerous occasions when I had ‘brain fog’ on what to do.
Her creative skills are amazing; she always seems to be popping up with new ideas. I am sure her Digital Marketing tutoring will enhance anyone’s business and expand their general knowledge and ability.
She has been and is a great friend. I happily recommend her technology skills and wish her every success in building her client base.
Carol Lockhart – Lliber, 2024
Tech Training Testimonial
I just wanted to drop a note to thank Karla Darocas so much for all of her help and support teaching me all about the principles of PhotoScape and setting up a website.
In the limited time that I spent with her, I felt that I learned a huge amount. Her own knowledge and expertise were very evident, and it was so reassuring that she was willing to share that so openly with me – and at an extremely competitive hourly rate.
She was very patient with a computer novice and went at a pace to suit my learning. Her style was very relaxed and friendly, and informative, and she guided me very gently through what was originally a very frightening maze. She was adaptable and prepared to work to my own agenda, rather than a rigid and overly structured regime.
I know that my business partners have been extremely impressed with what I have learned and achieved, and I would have no hesitation recommending Karla to anyone!
With best wishes, Ann Mather
Tech Training Testimonial
I first met Karla in February 2010 when I joined her business class in Benitachell. I then went on to having private computer lessons with her in order to learn to design my website and web pages.
Several months on and I am still going to lessons. I have learnt lots of different things about the Internet and websites that I had no idea about before.
I would recommend Karla to all my friends and clients now and in the future.
Laura Isaacs, Pedreguer, Costa Blanca.
Tech Training Testimonial
It could be pouring down with rain with hurricanes and tornadoes lashing at my front door, but I don´t care because I´ve got a website which is absolutely perfect for my business and I couldn´t have done it without the much appreciated help of Karla Darocas.
If you need a website (and if you´re in business, you DO need a website!), then I urge you to look no further than Karla. You simply don´t need to spend hundreds or thousands of euros getting a web designer to create a site which you´re not fully happy with and having to wait for the web designer to answer your calls when you need something changing (it´s happened to me!).
After just a few hours sitting in Karla´s nice warm office, I can now control my own site and change things as I need to. If I get stuck, I know that Karla will be there to help.
Karla listened to what I wanted to achieve and suggested a suitable layout, pointing out all the benefits, then she set about designing a fantastic banner logo for me. Then Karla showed me how to resize photos and upload them onto the site.
I don´t think I´m the easiest person to teach but she was very patient and answered my questions without any techno babble and jargon.
Alison Kilkenny
After just a few hours sitting in Karla´s nice warm office, I can now control my own site and change things as I need to. If I get stuck, I know that Karla will be there to help.
Karla listened to what I wanted to achieve and suggested a suitable layout, pointing out all the benefits, then she set about designing a fantastic banner logo for me. Then Karla showed me how to resize photos and upload them onto the site.
I don´t think I´m the easiest person to teach but she was very patient and answered my questions without any techno babble and jargon.
Alison Kilkenny
Photography Training Testimonial
"Karla has an encyclopedic knowledge and accessible style of presentation. She makes the techniques of photography easy to understand. Very interesting lecture with inspirational examples of photographic styles/works. Her teaching style is relaxed, informative and fun. I would recommend Karla to learn photography."
Nicola Clark - Javea
SOROLLA and GRECO LECTURE
I would like to say how very much I enjoyed your talks on Sorolla and El Greco.
I had seen some of the work of Sorolla before and was so delighted to have attended your very interesting lecture on this great Spanish painter. His connection with Javea was of particular interest and you gave us a true illustration of his unusual technique and skill.
The lecture on El Greco was just as amazing . I know little of this painter but you certainly brought him to life in your informative and lively lecture . I look forward to adding to my knowledge of Spanish Masters as I attend other lectures.
Keep up the good work Karla . You are certainly making a great contribution to our cultural life and understanding of Spain.
Lorna Ainsworth
Javea
FINE ARTS * SOROLLA * Testimonial from Javea resident
Karla has a great knowledge of both techniques and cultural history.
Sorolla is of great interest to me because I am Javea resident and so I have a local Javea connection.
Best wishes,
Lorna O’Connor
THE MASTERS * TESTIMONIAL by Rebecca Kerr
www.SpainLifestyle.com
I was very interested by the advertisement on FACEBOOK for a series of lectures on the Spanish Masters and was even more pleased that I attended.
Karla took us on a chronological stroll and sometimes a canter through the life and works of the five Spanish Masters. A lot of time, effort and research had obviously been put into making the lectures flow and in selecting and presenting the best possible slides of the painting to the group.
The classroom environment was perfect for the level of understanding that was required although the AC was a bit fierce!
I learnt a lot without being overwhelmed and was disappointed not to have been able to make the road trip to Toledo and Madrid to see some of the original artworks but hope to make the trip with another group.
Rebecca Kerr
THE MASTERS * TESTIMONIAL by Christine Irving
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Chris in Madrid studying the Masters
@ the Prado Museum
and the Reina Sofia - Art Galleries |
www.SpainLifestyle.com
REVIEW:
I saw the advert for the course on Facebook and if I’m honest, I was initially more interested in the history of Spain side than in the art as I never really thought of myself as an art lover.
However, thanks to Karla’s excellent (and often wacky!) way of explaining the works and lives of the Spanish masters that so clearly inspire her, I came to appreciate the paintings too.
The course has opened my eyes to a whole new interest, so much so that on a recent trip to Montserrat my partner was quite surprised to hear me exclaiming “Wow! There are some Picasso’s and Dali’s in this museum – we HAVE to go in!!!”
Maybe I should enroll him on the next course!
Thank you, Karla
Christine Irving
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