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 painter of Sumi-e, calligrapher and illuminator with over 30 years of experience, based in Nantes and Vannes. She will guide you in particular through learning and mastering tools on kozo and washi papers, working on posture and breath, studying technical gestures, and learning the stroke and color. “I strive to move along this zen path to follow its captivating freedom, its expression of purity, and its total spontaneity. Whenever rigor and audacity step into my brush, they break open the mystery of intelligence…”