Discover France through the places, stories, traditions, and everyday details that give each region its character. From Provençal markets and village lanes to Loire gardens and Parisian boulevards, I’ll help you experience France with curiosity, cultural context, and creativity.
Step into the heart of France through an immersive creative journey designed around place, story, and connection. Each featured experience combines thoughtful travel, approachable art-making, and the kind of cultural discovery that stays with you long after you return home.
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Wander through sun-washed villages, lively markets, artistic landscapes, and everyday rituals rooted in Provençal life. This intimate creative tour blends cultural exploration, guided journaling, local traditions, and joyful connection—inviting you to experience Provence not simply as a visitor, but as a curious creative explorer.
Every region of France has its own rhythm, palette, history, and creative character. Choose a place to begin, then explore its stories, experiences, resources, and ways to connect more deeply.
Discover the ochres, olive greens, market colors, artistic heritage, and sunlit villages of southern France. Explore current tours, past journeys, creative resources, and ways to bring the spirit of Provence into your own sketchbook and everyday life.
Enter a region of château gardens, royal history, riverside towns, and layered cultural stories. Through creative journeys and resources, the Loire becomes a place to explore imagination, heritage, beauty, and your own sense of discovery.
Go beyond a single atelier and spend several days exploring Paris through neighborhoods, monuments, artistic heritage, and everyday city life. This future immersive experience will combine cultural discovery, guided creativity, thoughtful pacing, and time to truly connect with the city.
France is filled with regions waiting to be explored creatively. Future journeys may lead to new landscapes, artistic traditions, gardens, villages, and stories—each experienced through the Wanderlust Designer lens.
You don’t have to board a plane to begin exploring France creatively. Through online ateliers, self-paced courses, printable journals, maps, art lessons, collage kits, and story-rich resources, you can discover the country’s places and cultural layers from your own creative table.
Explore French places, artists, stories, and traditions through live workshops and self-guided courses designed to build knowledge and creative confidence. These creative gatherings bring France to life through storytelling, observation, art-making, and connection — no previous art experience required.
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Discover different regions of France at home with Betsy's printable creative journal. These self-guided journals spark wanderlust even from home. Make observations, color your impressions, and jot down stories inspired by regions across France.
Draw, collage, experiment, and create with approachable projects rooted in French locations, culture and visual history.
Go deeper into France through travel stories, cultural insights, practical guidance, creative prompts, and visual resources. Whether you are planning a journey, remembering one, or simply dreaming from home, this collection will help you explore with greater curiosity and context.
The beauty of living in Europe is how easy it is to hop on a train and get to new places within no time at all. The gares of Paris (and my life long love of the country) has allowed me to explore all the corners of France - from Lille to Marseille, Strasbourg to Saint Malo, Biarritz to Normandy, I am in constant awe of the beauty and diversity this country offers. Below is a gallery of my photos from exploring France... with still so many corners to discover!
Read stories about French places, artists, traditions, neighborhoods, and the small details that reveal the character of a region.
Travel alongside me through French streets, markets, gardens, monuments, and studio projects inspired by place. Find thoughtful guidance for experiencing France with confidence and intention—from pacing and cultural etiquette to creative packing, journaling, and meaningful ways to connect with place.
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While France has become the heart of my work today, my creative journey has taken me through many inspiring places around the world. These earlier tours, workshops, and gatherings continue to shape the way I teach, travel, tell stories, and create every Wanderlust Designer experience.
Creative Addition to a Family Reunion
Enhance your group’s travel experience with a custom creative supplement designed to deepen connection and preserve memories. During a multi-generational family reunion in Umbria, Italy, guests of all ages created personal art journals capturing the week’s adventures — from wine tastings to games and shared meals — resulting in meaningful keepsakes to treasure for a lifetime.
Creative Tour
The colorfully rich and historic city of Marrakech, Morocco is the ideal setting for a week-long creative art retreat. It was an honor to lead a group of guests through this incredible location. Our experiences in the bustling souks, the foods, the music, the people, and the history were the perfect fodder to make a one-of-a-kind creative journal.
Leadership Retreat
This 3 day women’s leadership retreat was held among the towering trees and rugged coastline of Mendocino, California. I was asked to develop and lead a self-discover art workshop to complement the sessions that transpired over the long weekend.
Yoga Retreat
This 3 day yoga retreat was held in the High Sierra mountains of California. I collaborated with the retreat leader and created 2 different art workshop sessions during the retreat to not only capture the spirit of the location but also complement the yoga theme.
Creative Journaling Workshop
This half-day workshop was held in Brooklyn’s trendy DUMBO neighborhood of New York City. I taught several art-on-the-go principles and then we head out onto the streets to capture the scene.
Collage Workshop
This half day workshop was located next to one of Los Angeles areas most famous beach spots - the Santa Monica Pier. It made the perfect location to get creative with storytelling and collage making.
Collage Workshop
Palm Springs was the perfect setting to host a half-day Mid-Century Modern art workshop where we talked about the history of the era, the design style and created imaginative collages to reflect the mood.
Art on the Go Journal Workshop
With our mini-creative journals in hand, I toured a group of students and adults on a half-day art-on-the-go workshop through historic Chinatown, San Francisco - sharing history, context and creative activities along the way.
Art Workshop
This relaxing morning workshop was held along the Cache la Poudre River in Fort Collins, Colorado. We gathered in person to capture the history and essence of the location with a camp-inspired Creative Wanderlust Experience.
Collage Workshop
This half day workshop was located in Beverly Hills, California and just a stones throw away from the luxurious homes of Hollywood stars. The setting offered the perfect inspiration to get storytelling and create a vintage Hollywood inspired collage!
Creative Journaling Workshop
This half-day workshop was held in a beautiful Japanese garden in the San Mateo, California. Our group had an engaging time learning about the art of Japanese Gardens, exploring storytelling and creating a unique concertina art journal inspired by the location.
Creative Journaling Workshop
This half-day workshop was held in South San Francisco, and taught students techniques and prompts on how to start their very own storytelling travel journal on the go.
Every journey begins with curiosity and unfolds through story, observation, creativity, and connection. You’ll explore France in a way that is thoughtful, culturally informed, and entirely personal—returning home with more than photographs, but with a creative record of how the place made you feel.
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