Japanese Sumi-e painting and watercolour 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, calligrapher and illuminator with over 30 years of experience, based in Nantes and Vannes. She will guide you especially in learning and mastering tools for Kozo and Washi papers, in working on posture and breathing, in studying technical gestures, and in learning brushwork and color. “I strive to walk this Zen path to follow its captivating freedom, its expression of purity, and its total spontaneity. Whenever rigor and audacity enter my brush, they reveal the mystery of the intelligence of…”