“ For three hours, why not escape from daily life and let yourself relax into the meditation of woodworking craft? Surrender and connect to nature by working with your hands, and creating a special piece of art that soothes the senses and helps you towards inner peace. ”
This workshop for beginners to experienced craftsmen aims to create a vase. Guided by the artist, you will patiently sculpt your vase, scrape by scrape, with a kiridashi, a traditional Japanese knife using only the strength in your hands – no machine or electricity necessary.
You will learn different sculpting gestures: how to use a sharp object in good conditions and how to focus on the moment at hand.
At the end of the workshop you will leave with your wood creation as well as the tools needed to carve wood at home, and ideas on how to create your unique objects.
With Mathieu Segret
Originally from Sologne, Mathieu Segret has always been drawn to the lines and textures of earthen materials, which led him to study the design of objects, and thereby work in this creative field for almost ten years. Since moving to a small organic village in Provence, his work has been enriched by his exploration of nature and his respect for what it needs and what it does. He explores the links between the world and people through sculpture and photography, and in his fragile and poetic work, with its apparent simplicity, the onlooker is invited to question their relationship to the exterior and interior world and view themselves in a new, different light.
