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St. Martin - St. Maarten Artistic Voyage: Small-Group Tour Exploring Renowned Local Artists

4.8

15 Ratings

Philipsburg

Embark on a small-group tour of St. Martin and St. Maarten, exploring the works of renowned local artists. Discover vibrant art depicting the island's nature, culture, and people, and take home a piece to brighten up any room!

Duration: 4 hours

Cancellation: 1 day learn more

Highlights

St Martin / St Maarten - Artist #1
Take Your Pick - Please let us know which 4 artists from the listing you would prefer to visit. Our St Martin Art Tour has a maximum of 6 guests per tour, so chances to see at least some of your favorite artists are pretty good.

The Art Tour starts at Dock Maarten in Philipsburg. For exact location see confirmation details.

*FAQ from cruise ship guests:

My ship arrives later than 8.30 am, can I do a tour with you?

Yes, we can adjust the starting time of the tour. Pls let us know your ship and time.
Will I make it in time to your meeting point?

If your ship is docking half an hour prior to our starting time, then you will make it to our meeting point at Dock Maarten. Don’t worry if you’re delayed up to 30mins, we know the ship’s in port, you’ve paid for your tour, so we wait till you get to our meeting point.
Will the tour be back in time for my cruise ship?

We have returned 100% of our cruise ship guests back to the ship on time.

What's Included

Local guide
Tea and coffee
Bottled water
Snacks

What's Not Included

Gratuities
Souveniers
Personal Expenses
Dock Maarten: Parking is available for the first hour at USD $2.00, each additional hour USD $1.00

Additional Information

The St Martin Art Expedition begins at 9 am. It lasts for 4 hours, during which you’ll journey around the whole island traversing both the French and Dutch territories of St Maarten/St Martin and visiting 4 distinguished local artists in their galleries or studios.

Thanks to the diverse backgrounds of these artists, a delightful array of styles and techniques has been generated, waiting to be savoured on the St Martin Art Expedition. The artworks vividly portray the nature, culture, and people of St Martin. Acquire an original or a replica to bring a taste of St Martin into your living space, making it more lively!

Throughout the journey, your driver-guide will share fascinating tales about the history of St Martin. Before the tour, guests have the provision to select from a list of artists; refer to the ‘Images w/ Information about our Artists’ and ‘Activity Details’ section.

Location

Dock Maarten

Juancho Yrausquin Boulevard

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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(15 Ratings)

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X791cumatthewf

Jan 19, 2024

Informative Walking Tour - Had a very informative walking tour through Philipsburg viewing murals and local culture. This is the BEST way to get the real local experience. Thank you

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Lorieg_m

Mar 25, 2023

Art tour - Meeting artists and hearing history and techniques. Ruby Bute very pleasant. Found seascapes we were looking for. Minguets daughter also a delight. Charles was our guide and he was very accommodating.

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Rodney_r

Jan 12, 2023

Art and History - What a lovely day visiting four local artist galleries across St Martin. Our driver Girt acted as tour guide as he drove us across the island. His company added to this very excellent day.

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Bwitchel

Sep 14, 2022

Great cultural and artistic experience - This was an amazing day. We toured 4 artists and met them in person. Johnnie, our guide was attentive and answered many questions about the cultures of both sides of the island. He is also involved in the art scene as a professional dancer and dance instructor. We met artist, Christiane Ladeon with her beautiful nature works. Also the daughter of Alexandre Minguet, who keeps her father’s art work alive. We were fortunate to be able to spend time with Ruby Bute, artist, writer, poet and storyteller, who had just been honored by the entire island for her contribution to the arts. She read some of her latest poetry and told us more of her background. It was such a wonderful day and yes, we did make some purchases but there was no pressure. We would recommend this tour to anyone interested in the arts and culture. Johnnie was on time and excellent company.

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Yvonne

Jul 11, 2021

Great and inspiring trip to local gallery's and meet the artists - Our tourguide Nascha took me, my sister and 10 year old daughter on a great trip to visit different gallery's and local artists on the island. She took all the time to let us ask questions and listen to the stories of the artists and let us experience a great variety of work. We went to the Minguet Art Gallery, Ruby Bute's gallery and saw the great aquarelles from Christiane Ladéon. All artists have their own style and quality and each of them were very friendly. Nascha is a very enthousiastic guide and at Ruby Bute's place we sat down for a while to enjoy tea and bananacake and listen to Ruby Bute's great stories. At the Minguet Art gallery the daughter of Alexandre Minguet (passed away in 1996) Catherine showed us his impressionistic work of beautiful islandviews and flowers but also a great variety of other artists which made it very inspiring to look around in the gallery. The final artist Christiane showed us how she works with aquarel in quite a different way than most people work with aquarel. Very bright colours and beautiful blendings. So thank you Nascha for this great tour...we could not leave without purchasing some art to keep the memory of this day even more alive.

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John

Mar 14, 2020

Interesting visit to local artists - We had a wonderful time with our guide David visiting 4 local artists. We had an opportunity to talk with the artists and enjoyed banana bread and lemon grass tea with Dame Ruby Bute. As we traveled around the island, David shared with us the history of the island and pointed out many points of interest. I would love to return and do his history tour. This tour was the highlight of our vacation.

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Jordyboi20

Mar 7, 2020

Meet the real people of the island - If you haven’t had the pleasure of walking through Max’s gallery garden, perusing Zdenka’s pearl creations at the Art Box or having Dame Ruby Bute read you her poetry while you savour David’s own banana bread and lemongrass tea...you haven’t truly experienced this island’s gifts. David is not only your guide to these amazing artists and others but an awesome historian who will tour you around the entire island in 3 hours and provide access to places you would never find on your own.

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Carol

Dec 24, 2019

Enjoyable! Recommended - We booked tour for our October cruise as we had been to St. Maarten/Martin on several occasions, and had seen much of both sides of island. We were looking for something a bit different an this was. We could not have visited the 4 widely spread out artists studios on our own. We particularly enjoyed Ruby Bute's gallery and bought several prints which now are on our wall. Also gallery and classroom of Tess Verheij. What was different in her studio was the adjacent "Waste Factory" where numerous items are crafted from waste materials. I bought several coin purses made of milk and juice cartons, very inventive. I was particularly interested as I have worked with some of the materials myself and learned some new uses for recyclable items like plastic bags, can rings, newspaper and the already mentioned containers. We saw 2 other galleries as well. A very enjoyable day and saw much of the countryside as we went from to St Maarten to St Martin. Right length of tour for us too, with a very friendly guide.

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Sandy_b

Jan 31, 2024

True Art of St Maarten - We truly enjoyed our driver, full of history and just a nice, professional guide. Meeting the artists really makes the art more interesting and makes their art come to life.

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Jrsmas

Feb 3, 2023

ARTIST TOUR - The tour guide was great and provided a historical perspective of the island and general vicinity. Some of artists were fantastic, giving personal accounts and that made it very special.

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