Artistic practice workshops during school holidays

Artistic practice workshops 2026:

• Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 April 2026 – 9:30/16:30
  "Travel Diary" with Agnès Duroyaume
  Audience: Adults (12 places)
  Price: € 190

Discovering different notebooks and their various forms, then choosing to create your own. Gathering materials (papers, sensations, colors, sounds), drawing (ink, pencil, pastels…), gluing, writing, assembling, and unfolding your journey on paper.
One can travel through one's memories, one's garden, one's family, one's project…

• Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 April 2026 – 9:30/16:30
  "Modeling: Understanding different techniques" with Thierry Corrieras
  Audience: Adults (10 places)
  Price: € 190

A modeling workshop where the focus would be on learning different techniques (slabs, coils, pinched clay, cracked clay, textural effects, etc.). The goal is for participants to have gained a different perspective on shaping clay by the end of the workshop.

• Thursday 9 and Friday 10 April 2026 – 9:30/16:30
  "The Print and its Multiples" with Charlotte Clauzel
  Suitable for ages 11 and up (10 places)
  Price: € 190

This workshop offers an introduction to printmaking through linocut and Tetra Pak printing, two techniques accessible to a wide audience and reproducible at home, without the need for a studio and using recycled materials. The goal is to create multiple prints. Once these techniques are mastered, you can experiment with different combinations of colors and printing materials, applying them to various surfaces such as fabrics, notebooks, or patterned paper. All those eager to experiment are welcome.

• Tuesday 14, Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 April (Off-site) – 9:30/16:30
  “Sketching from life, outdoors, and learning to see” with Patricia Labache
  Audience: Adults (10 places)
  Price: € 260

Three days of exploring Limoges and the banks of the Vienne River, sketchbook in hand, drawing from life. Through carefully chosen subjects and with a focus on progression, we will explore landscapes, vegetation, architecture, figures, and perhaps interior spaces if time forces us to retreat to monuments or museums. These diverse subjects open up a wide range of issues related to pictorial expression and two-dimensional representation, while simultaneously offering considerable freedom to each participant.
We will practice various dry and wet drawing techniques that are easily portable. The main objective will be to train one's eye, to develop one's style and sensitivity.

• Tuesday 7, Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 July 2026 – 9:30/16:30
  "Throwing (potter's wheels)" with Thierry Corrieras
  Audience: Adults (4 places)
  Price: € 260

A turning workshop, with simple technical basics, which allow you to understand the movement of the lathe and to use it.
To take things further, it will be possible to work on creating a sculpture from a thrown form. This method allows students to acquire faster and more precise techniques for shaping clay, as well as to use thrown forms in artistic work.
The goal here is to demonstrate that it is not the tool that creates, but rather the will of the person using it.

• Tuesday 7, Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 July 2026 (Off-site) – 9:30/16:30
  “Sketching from life, outdoors, and learning to see” with Patricia Labache
  Audience: Adults (10 places)
  Price: € 260

Three days of exploring Limoges and the banks of the Vienne River, sketchbook in hand, drawing from life. Through carefully chosen subjects and with a focus on progression, we will explore landscapes, vegetation, architecture, figures, and perhaps interior spaces if time forces us to retreat to monuments or museums. These diverse subjects open up a wide range of issues related to pictorial expression and two-dimensional representation, while simultaneously offering considerable freedom to each participant.
We will practice various dry and wet drawing techniques that are easily portable. The main objective will be to train one's eye, to develop one's style and sensitivity.

• Tuesday, July 7, 2026 – 9:30 AM / 16:30 PM
  "From cyanotype to monotype: tell me about the ocean" with MissV
  Target audience: children aged 8 and over (10 places)
  Price: € 120

The workshop will begin with an introduction to cyanotype* on the theme of the seabed, to understand how an image is created by contact printing, without a camera. In the second part, each participant will work on the images they created using acrylic paint to make monotypes**.

* cyanotype = an old photographic process that allows you to obtain images by contact, in Prussian blue.
** monotype = ink printing process without engraving, which allows for a unique print.

• Wednesday, July 8 (half day) – 9:30/12:30
  "Discovering cyanotype: the little things that fly" with MissV
  Target audience: children aged 8 and over (10 places)
  Price: € 60

This introduction to cyanotype (an early photographic process that produces contact prints in Prussian blue) will playfully and poetically explore the creation of an image without a camera. The small, flying things will be the central theme of this workshop.

• Thursday 9 and Friday 10 July 2026 – 9:30/16:30
  "Cyanotype and Photography: Creating Three-Dimensional Images" with MissV
  Target audience: children aged 8 and over (10 places)
  Price: € 190

This cyanotype workshop aims to move beyond the traditional use of this contact printing process, namely, the now almost ubiquitous herbarium. We will therefore work on the materiality of the image and explore the artistic possibilities of cyanotype, particularly its transformation from two-dimensional to three-dimensional. Each participant will be able to develop a personal approach to memory and the trace. Please bring approximately twelve personal photographs for this purpose.

• Monday 19 and Tuesday 20 October 2026 – 9:30/16:30
  "From Image to Artist's Book" with MissV
  Suitable for ages 15 and up (8 places)
  Price: € 190

The aim is to consider the book as a visual medium rather than a reading tool. By exploring the theme of "Shadows and Lights," each participant will develop a non-linear narrative through photography, collage, drawing, writing, etc., and create a unique, visual copy of their book.