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NG Art Creative Residency
A home away from home, NG Art Creative Residency is an international multi-disciplinary creative residency that offers a place of respite, nourishment and enlightenment for creatives who seek to enrich their artistic process away from the hustle and bustle of metropolitan life. Based a few kilometres from the historical village of Eygalières in Provence, Southern France, in a charming 15th century homestead, Mas des Pelerins.
NG Art Creative Residency is directed and run by long-standing gallerist, curator, entrepreneur and director Nicky Ginsberg. Born in London, schooled at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, and University of Sydney to undertake a BA in Art History.
Whether utilizing the large studio space at Mas des Pelerins or creating en plein air in Provence, ignite your imagination amongst the olive groves, reclining in a hammock, beneath the fig tree or a secret location of your own. It’s hard not to be inspired in the epicentre of art, culture and creative spirit. Immortalised by the greats, the memories of Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Frédéric Mistral, Alphonse Daudet, Joseph Roumanille and Marie Mauron live on within the sun-kissed meadows, sweeping hills, red poppy fields and jasmine-scented cobbled streets.
Creatives will have the opportunity to feast from dawn to dusk. Together, local chefs and Madame Ginsberg source ingredients for the local markets, exhibit their culinary skillset, and impart their knowledge of food and authentic French cuisine. Here you can taste the fruits of their labor, one ingredient at a time, and lend a helping hand so that you too can create creative and culinary masterpieces.
At the end of your stay you have the opportunity to present your body of work, script, performance, composition, or piece of writing, over a celebratory feast for all of the senses.
Residency Creatives can engage with the local artist community at evening soirées, feasts for the senses, workshops, and over Côte de Provence Rosès at local vineyards.
The NG Art Creative Residency is open from September to May each year. There are three different packages available and the preferred length of stay is 3, 4 or 6 weeks.
If you would like to collaborate or run a workshop with NG Art Creative Residency you can reach us via email or whatsapp. We look forward to celebrating Provence with you.
Email:
ngartcreativeresidency@gmail.com
Whatsapp:
+61 417 494 317
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Jolie Vintage Atelier
The Beauty in your Hands
Jolie Vintage Atelier
What is it about living in Provence that conjures a sense of an easier and simpler life? A life where more things were made by hand, where more food was locally grown and where more time was spent with family and friends. Provence makes one feel as if they have been transported back in time to the last “slow” decade of the 1970’s – a time before the internet and all its associated electronic devices that absorb too much of our day; a time before 24 hour news and the anxiety that it produces; and a time before money mattered more than meaning.
These days, it seems more important than ever to hold on to arts that connect us to the past, that bring beauty into our everyday lives and that help us express ourselves as creative beings. As humans we are all creative, we just sometimes lock that part of ourselves away, fearing that we are not good enough or that it takes special talent. That is where crafting comes in. Crafting is the perfect solution for helping unlock the creativity within you. Crafting is all about fun. You are using your own good taste and your own eye for detail to create something pleasing to you. Nobody is there to judge and nobody is there to keep score. It is your “creative date,” as Julia Cameron would say, and we need at least one per week for ourselves.
Jolie Vintage Atelier’s mission is to provide a supportive environment in an inspirational space hosted by an enthusiastic and engaged teacher. During workshops we create in a fun relaxing atmosphere while at the same time learning something new, or perhaps more accurately, rediscovering something old – one of the Atelier’s key techniques, decoupage, can be traced back to 12th century China and was popularised in France and Italy during the 17th century. If you like brocante, romantic, vintage, floral, rococo, purple, old gold, or the “distressed-look” themes that this era evokes, then you will love crafting sessions at Jolie Vintage Atelier.
Jolie Vintage Atelier is in the village of Goult, in the heart of the Luberon, in the locally well known “La Maison Rouge,” at the top of la Rue de la Republique (Goult’s main street) behind the olive tree. Your host at Jolie Vintage Atelier is Mimi Pillsbury. Mimi has been learning and teaching the crafting techniques offered by the Atelier for 9 years now. She has also been selling her creations in galleries and bazars in Serbia and Jordan where the Pillsbury family lived and worked before moving to Provence in January 2017.
Crafting workshops typically last 2 and ½ hours and are held on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays (10:00 – 12:30). Every workshop covers a different technique (decoupage, crackling, stencilling (2D and 3D), stamping, and fabric decoupage among others) and focuses on different objects each time (glass plates, wooden boxes, particle boards, cardboard boxes and even found / up-cycled objects). At the end of each session, you take home with you a finished decorated object (serving plate, clock, jewellery / gift box). All the materials, motives, protective tools (gloves), and unadorned objects are provided. All the mediums used during the workshops are acrylic-water based and safe / non-toxic.
Jolie Vintage Atelier workshops are affordable lovely opportunities to create lasting memories with your own hands and to do something different and fun in Provence – as a treat for yourself or with guests, friends or family – when your feet hurt from exploring but you still cannot stop yourself from being inspired by all the beauty around us.
Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Jolie-Vintage-Atelier-604109283047257/ and Instagram http://www.pictaram.com/user/author_vintage/1686988298 . Call for more information on 064 099 9301 (best on Viber or WhatsApp) or just come and stop by on the Atelier’s open-house days noted above. Jolie Vintage Atelier can also organise workshops at your place if you are thinking about hosting a “crafting party” for kids or adults.
We are looking forward to fun creative times ahead of us!
Jolie Vintage Atelier
