Perceptions & Senses Suzon Lagarde

Service Description

A 3-day workshop for beginners and advanced artists, curious to question how we see, and therefore how we paint. Painting life? Painting reality? Sounds like a beautiful yet impossible quest - how could one ever grasp on a flat surface, through fixed colours and shapes, an experience that is of multiple dimensions, woven through the senses, referencing an outer world as much as one’s inner consciousness? And yet, astounding paintings have been created - some that feel just right. What is it then? Those paintings which managed to go beyond representation. Visual poems which move away from what we see and believe to know, connecting us instead with the mystery of our felt experience. It’s our chance to get curious about those fleeting and singular experiences, always with us yet most of the time over-looked and replaced by projections. If you too feel curious, let’s get together for this 3-day workshop, dive into the here and now…and see if we can paint it! Through a range of playful and ambitious exercises, we’ll put our habits to the side for a moment (or forever!), observing anew, getting intrigued by how our vision works, how our inner mental world works, and explore ways to challenge our senses. Expect to paint a lot, and above all to feel a lot. Working in a group will offer us the chance to discuss our varied experiences and get inspired by one another. The exercises we will have explored together will be in our artist tool box for life, whether with a brush in hand or just sitting on a bench, observing the world anew. This course includes working from a model on day 3.