In June '22 I travelled to central France to teach a few sketching workshops. The Clermont Dessine drawing festival takes place in Clermont-Ferrand, in the heart of the Auvergne, every year in June, and I was one of the international tutors chosen: you had to have fluent French to teach at the festival, and the generosity of my parents in sending me France on my own when I was a teenager, combined with my years of living and working in Paris and Mauritius, mean I fit the bill.
I am a bit short on video clips, as I was all about Instagram this time last year rather than KZitem, so I have salvaged what I have from Reels and even clips I sent home via Whatsapp, to give you an impression of the few days I spent there.
One of the workshops I taught took place in a giant medieval castle perched on a massive rock, itself on the very tippy-top of a hill...so you can imagine the views from the ramparts. It was like being on top of a mountain - 360º uninterrupted views, fading only with the haze, many kilometres into the distance. The owner is a retired auctioneer, one of France's main ones. Think Picassos, Van Goghs, Gauguins... that kind of thing. He bought it on a whim over the cheese course one Saturday evening. I will write it up on my blog as I think you'll enjoy it. Even if I had remembered to film there, the owner wasn't keen on it - there are light-figered collectors everywhere - so it will be in words alone!
And so I have put together some clips, along with a flick-through - if that's what you call looking through an accordion sketchbook - of the drawings and paintings I made in Clermont-Ferrand. My hosts during the event, Tazab and Sylvie, are two of the nicest people you could meet, and even the Directrice of the event, Pierrette, invited me for a night in her mountain chalet.
I am so happy to have this video of a happy time there. I won't be back in Clermont-Ferrand for a while to come, so it's nice for these clips to make the leap from the swamp of files in my iphone to this wonderful platform.
I hope you enjoy it too.
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