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

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: 24 hours
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…
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…

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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Catherine
May 22, 2024
So cool...Art well done - A great way to see the island and experience a bit of its art culture. We were shown 3 separate galleries, and I bought artwork from 2 out of the three. I thoroughly enjoyed the knowledge and insight from our tour guide. I would definitely recommend.
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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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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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From $89
up to 6 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).