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A mixed media retreat at Manyoni Private Game Reserve with Tiffany Sharpe

Some retreats teach you to paint. This one teaches you to gather — moments, textures, people, and places — and turn them into something you'll carry home forever.

Guided by playful mixed-media artist Tiffany Sharpe, this experience is built on foundations of deep childhood nostalgia, raw storytelling, and expressive travel journaling to build a personal, handmade diary of your African journey.

Manyoni Private Game Reserve. Big Five country. One of South Africa's most breathtaking wilderness settings — and for seven days, your creative playground.

Pathway Partners has brought together mixed media artist and lifelong maker Tiffany Sharpe, and placed her in the heart of the African bush. Each day, surrounded by wildlife and wild landscape, you'll slow down, get your hands a little messy, and discover that art was never about perfection — it was always about connection.

This isn't a class. It's a gathering.

What to Expect

Each day moves to the rhythm of the reserve. Mornings belong to the bush — early game drives, fresh air, and the kind of light that makes you want to capture everything. Then you come back, sit down at your table with Tiffany, and you begin to make something from what you've seen.

Tiffany leads daily mixed media workshops built around the world just outside your door — the textures of bark, the colours of the landscape, the shapes of animals mid-stride. She weaves together her roots in quilting, nature collecting, and experimental making into sessions that feel less like lessons and more like play.

No experience needed. No rules. Just open hands, a curious mind, and a willingness to gather.

Evenings are for sharing what you made, swapping stories around the fire, and watching the African sky remind you how small — and how lucky — you are.