Costa Rica Artist / Painter Michael Cranford has created a magical paradise he calls Sombra de la Lapa (Shade of the Macaw).  Welcome to Sombra de La Lapa. This private home, workshop & retreat facility and vacation rental home is here in Costa Rica on the Osa Peninsula in Southern Costa Rica. Workshop and retreat options include Visual Arts – painting, acrylics, oils, watercolors, photography.- all mediums, Meditational  Journeys, Healing Art Retreats and Workshops, Jungle Art Therapy, Tantric Painting, pilgrimages into the rainforest. For Costa Rica Tree House Enthusiasts, click on the links to the treehouse pages.  Our 3 bedroom /  2 Bath / 4 level tree house is our most recent living and breathing creation currently under construction!  

You can also rent  Sombra de la Lapa home as a premium vacation rental home for you and your family while visiting Costa Rica. Accommodations include 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and a fabulous swimming pool with  spectacular views of the Golfo Dulce, Our Costa Rica home rental  can be compared to any vacation villa rental in the world.

Located on 120 acres of pristine rainforest with great ocean views of the gulf and mountains, complete with swimming pool, maid service, gas grille, internet and phone.  It’s a great vacation option to see Costa Rica from our totally furnished vacation rental home within an hour of  Matapalo.  Great birding and monkey watching from our living room or pool.

Be the first to rent, cook, swing in a hammock and sleep in Costa Rica’s most unique tree house 50’ up in the air overlooking Corcovado National Park and the Golfo Dulce, where you will be face to face with monkeys, birds and living 50’ up in the canopy in our 3 bedroom tree house. Our totally furnished Tree House is now starting to rent beginning with Christmas in 2008. Our home and retreat facility are located within driving distance to Matapalo and Southern Costa Rica’s best tours, and hiking options.  This vacation home in Costa Rica is a special experience you do not want to miss!

I encourage you to visit my on-line Costa Rica Art Gallery. You will find my personal collection of my favorite oil and acrylic paintings that I have painted over the years since 1998 when I moved to Costa Rica.  You will find tropical art, surrealism, and my newest series of paintings, completed  with my partner Rebecca Amelia.  Our new work embodies the oldest images in the universe and are from galaxies far away. Keep checking in for a sneak a peek!  I am also an architect here in Costa Rica,  design tree houses, cabinas and private homes for people interested in living open and free from walls, practical yet with designs you dream about!

For more information about Costa Rica art, artist, painting workshops, healing arts  & tree house workshops in Costa Rica,  Contact  Michael H. Cranford at  info@michaelincostarica.com or Rebecca Amelia at info@costaricaartretreat.com   
Osa Peninsula Costa Rica