ATELIERS DE L’ETOILE, more than 20 years of artistic creation

The Ateliers de l'Etoile born in October 2001 from an intuition of Laurence de Marliave, after the attacks in New York where "in a world that bursts, it is necessary that everyone can try to find his center, his balance and his peace interior ".

The practice of art, a medium of universal expression, allows everyone to find a well being, a healing, and a rebalancing as a kind of meditation; the time is suspended, we are no longer in the Chronos but in a rhythm peculiar to each and as a pupil says "the mind empties and lightenes".

For almost 17 years the workshop has welcomed 70 to 90 apprentice artists per year, children and adults, and in addition to the well being there is of course learning various techniques and the goal is that everyone can become autonomous and find your own writing while having solid foundations. It is a real pleasure to see inert material take shape and organize itself as a real alchemy to create a painting or a work that will also be an object of instant mediation between all of them.

Working together in small numbers at the workshop creates a dynamic interaction that allows everyone to develop their creativity. But also to weave the link. links strengthened by the many courses "painting on the ground" that were organized in France and abroad so we were 5 years in a row in Lourmarin in the Lubéron, but also at the villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, on the coast of azure, 3 times in India, Radjashtan and Tamil Nadu, in Italy, Florence, Venice.

We now have artistic partnerships (star-nomad workshops) with many professional painters from around the world whom we have met personally and from friends of the workshop: Rome, Florence, Salisbury, Brussels, St. Petersburg, Seoul, Pondicherry , and lately Isfahan and Teheran.

During these years the workshop became the "plural" workshops, because the idea was to propose in this place various artistic approaches, with different teachers, all professionals and graduates of art schools. Alongside the painting there was the restoration of works of art, art history, portraiture, drawing, cartoon, and even music with the Allegria school which shared our premises during 4 years, with beautiful animations around 5 senses (music and delicacies).

Located close to the Arc de Triomphe, open to all those ages 7 to 77 who want to learn to draw and paint, model or enamel or deepen their technique and creativity in a friendly and flexible atmosphere.
A didactic and technical education addresses the main points of the plastic expression (space, color, value, material, movement, composition) of the exercises are proposed in this spirit each week with various techniques. Courses are "à la carte", this exceptional flexibility in a Parisian workshop allows everyone to organize as he wants and manage his schedule.