Artists - Artistic crafts

Wood and stone carving, clay, cement and foam sculpture.
I am a sculptor whose artistic skills have been handed down by Master Rousseau, know-how which I bestow too.
In the meanwhile, I continue working as a novice, whose thirst of life is inexhaustible.
Internships of wood or stone carving (amateur or novice, from 7 to 77). Raw material and equipment provided, choice of different subjects and personal monitoring, creation of low and high relief, sculpture in relief. On demand.

Guy Weir was born in England, Colchester, the 16th of July 1945. He has spent his childhood in his parents' factory in Tipperary, Ireland and then in Suffolk, England. He studied Graphic Arts at the Art Academy and Illustration at the Art School in Norwich and Wimbledon. Painting and especially watercolour are his main activities during some years. It is 31 years that he is living in an old factory in Pechboutier, France, in Dordogne. Every winter he leaves France in order to travel and paint in exotic countries. Up to the present, he has visited 15 times the Latin America, 7 times Asia and 7 times Africa. Guy Weir, a figurative painter.

Atelier, Exhibition.
Pottery, RAKU.
Visits on demand all the year long, except the summer: open from
2 p.m. to 7p.m.

Atelier - Exhibition Robert Vignal
Paintings - Drawings - Sculptures

Loyal to his origins, he paints his reality and that of the Périgord Noir, where men have made the environment with their own hands, helped by animals, sharing their pains during centuries.
Jean Giono used to admire his paintings and he compared them to that of Louis Le Nain, excellent master of the French realism of the XVIIth century.

After having studied in the Academy of Arts in Toulouse, Suzanne KNOEPFLIN studies at the ENSET, Carchan, the teaching profession. She teaches during some years in secondary schools, then in the Academy of Arts in Blois, and then she is in charge of the "Atelier of the artistic society of Beaugency" during 14 years. Looking for our origins, she discovers a new way of pictorial expression, throughout her native land: the Dordogne. A land of brightness, where the beauty of pure and wild sites and the rupestrian art of animals of the Lascaux cave combine together: that's the trigger, the original inspiration for her painting. Her art takes the appearance of the rupestrian art.

Some posters on a small table. Some engravings upon the walls. Sepias, colours, some paintings coming back from an exhibition in South America. Mi is busy. She is explaining the technique of engraving to some people...patiently and with her accent from Bruges, where she studied Arts.
She speaks with passion. The zinc or copper plate, the varnish coat, the dried point, the acid, the different steps of the mechanical press... her creative thinking...the accuracy of the tracing (line).
The Nature is omnipresent, our fields, our forests, sometimes the ocean. The colours are pastels. We can observe them without tiring. Here is the quiet, the serenity.

FARES: Mi does do things properly! She exhibits abroad and she warmly receives us. She receives the afternoon or on demand.

Born in Paris in 1950, with a jewellery education, after having worked in place Vendôme and rue de la Paix, I leave my native city and my first job during the 70's. Enchanted by the nature, a readiness for drawing, I start painting. I'm living in Dordogne since 40 years and I paint the motif, the landscapes of the Périgord Noir, looking for light effects, following the legacy of the landscape painters of the XIXth century. Various bouquets add to my work diversity and harmony.

Christian Florio: born in 1951 in Lion.
National Arts Academy of Lion, with René Chancrin.
Around 1900, the hyper realism will disappear in favour of abstractionism. In that period he returns living in the region of Beaujolais and starts a solitary creation, without any kind of influences.
The substance enters his canvas. "The artist creates his own abstract language, a language that only he can own and which makes the difference among the local and regional context".
The artist looks up to what exceeds him and, humbly, patiently he starts going on his way...
Today Christian Florio lives and works in Dordogne.

Exhibition and atelier of Raku pottery.
Useful and decorative items.
Open every day from 10 to 12 and from 2 to 7 p.m.
Possibility of internship on demand.
Free entry.

As the authentic artists, Pascal Magis has an interior fire that he fans endlessly. The secrets of his tricks? Nobody knows; he takes them out directly from his innards. His masters, even if they exist, they are invisible, because he does not copy them. In his works, there is nothing which could remember the lesson of the contemporary masters.

Prone to some creative furies, his non figurative spontaneous painting has dynamism and enthusiasm which only some rare lolls can chasten. The spectator in love with the rhythm and the intensity of this new expressionism, composed by some coloured fields and gestural marks, is filled with enthusiasm.

Art gallery with sculptor, wildlife photograph, painter...