Japanese Sumi-e painting and watercolor workshop

Musée-atelier de l'imprimerie de Nantes, 24 Quai de la Fosse

This workshop is led by Marie-Aude DONGUY, a Sumi-e painter and calligrapher and illuminator for more than 30 years, in Nantes and Vannes. She will guide you in particular in learning and mastering tools on kozo and washi paper, the work on posture and breath, the study of technical gestures, the learning of line and color. “I try to attain this Zen path to follow its captivating freedom, its expression of purity, its total spontaneity. Whenever rigor and audacity invite themselves into my brush, they split the mystery of the intelligence of…"