Painting & Creativity Art Workshops with artist Tjaša Iris in PROVENCE, France

Program and Excursions ..... and DAY BY DAY PROGRAM

Intensive one week Landscape Painting & Creativity Workshop in PROVENCE, FRANCE on "The path of Van Gogh" by artist Tjaša Iris.

Painting. Color theory. Visual creativity techniques. Slides of contemporary and modern art will be shown each evening. It is as well an art appreciation course.

We live in a society in which the creative ethos is increasingly dominant.

The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, creative "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between

who gets ahead and who doesn't.

WHAT IS THIS WORKSHOP ALL ABOUT:

Tjaša Iris, an internationally acclaimed artist will guide you in order for you to explore your creative potential, develop your own painting style and see and be inspired in some of the most beautiful places in the world as PROVENCE, France.

This workshop is going to open your eyes on art. You will learn a lot about painting. Tjaša will work with you so that you develop your own personal style. It is as well an art appreciation course for those of you who love art and will wish to know more about it. It is also a cultural & gourmet tour. You will get to know a lot about the country that you will be visiting. About its art & history. It is for you to enjoy their best wines & cuisine. It will be about pleasurable painting. Plein air landscape painting. Four hours of painting per day and one hour of an evening slide lecture - art appreciation course. It will be about relaxing and having fun while learning and discovering. Many museum & cultural sites visits. In a couple of afternoons you will be as well invited to go trekking with Tjaša. And more...

DAY BY DAY: The first day will be about loosing the fear and about getting loose. In the following days we will get more intellectual, but we will also play a lot. Tjaša finds learning through having fun as the most important way of learning & making progress in life. You will be painting without thinking, you will analyze lots of paintings painted by very famous artists with Tjaša. Learn about the visual. Analyze from the highest intellectual point of view why something works and why something else does not. The visual language, the energy of colour, about being personal, what makes certain painters genius, about powerful, passion, about joy of life…

FOR WHO THIS WORKSHOP IS GOOD FOR:

and why

- For artists and art lovers With Tjaša Iris you will paint in one of the most beautiful places in the world. Tjaša will help you develop your personal style. And will make you find inspiration in these wonderful places, for an unforgettable painting vacation. The art appreciation course will help you understand art better as well as it will make you develop a more critical thinking about art.

- For art collectors and investors With Tjaša Iris you will paint in one of the most beautiful places in the world. Under her guidenes, trying to paint yourself, will expand your perceptions and will totally open your eyes on the works of other artists, too. The evening art appreciation course will make you understand, why a certain painting is good. What was it that the artist did that was so genius. What is it that makes certain paintings special and precious and others not. During Tjaša's evening slides lectures, you will analyze many works of art. For investors keen to gain a competitive edge. The workshop will mean a solid base for your art collection and for your future investments.

- For those of you who are in Education Many educators taking the workshop receive financial help from their school district or university to attend our summer workshops in Europe. Contact your Professional Development office. As well as The Fund for Teachers http://www.fundforteachers.org/ Recipients receive up to $5,000 each. This workshop can obtain you a credit to be applied to your Continuing Education - Teacher Development requirement. If you are completing an Advanced Degree you can ask your university for a credit as if you are doing an Independent Study course.

- For business people, corporative, investors, entrepreneurs, business owners who, as part of their innovation strategy, need to bring creativity to the innovation process. The workshop aims to develop your business creativity. Investments into creativity and innovations are the most important for your business right now in the present time of economic crises. Only the creative people will be the most successful ones. Many of the people taking the workshop are sent by their companies as part of their professional development (and in this case workshop expenses may also be tax-deductible). This workshop make the participants aware of their own creativity. And how to use it. So, once back to their office, they are now able to recognize and use their own creativity to the full at their own work place. They are now turning economic crises into opportunity.

- For scientists The workshop aims to develop more the right-side of your brain. A very successful scientists need both right and left side of their brain. Science is unable to make new big steps without the scientist being very creative people. Understanding art and creativity can help enormously to the scientists in order to achieve most significant results in science.

- For adventurous travellers with the passion for art. The workshop is an investment into personal development of single person. It is an achievement of new experiences.

ABOUT TJAŠA IRIS

is an artist with a multicultural profile. Born in Slovenia. Educated in Italy, England and the Netherlands. Lived and worked as well in Paris and California.

She is a member of Slovenian Artist Association and of AIAP Association Internationale des Arts Plastique by UNESCO since 1996.

She had many exhibitions in different countries as in Italy, The Netherlands, Slovenia, USA, South Africa, Spain, France and Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia.

Her works are in many private and public collections in The Netherlands, Slovenia, Italy, USA, South Africa, France, Hong Kong and Singapore.

She is currently living at Villa Flora, Branik in the Mediterranean Wine Country of Slovenia a villa apartment rental as well as an Artist Retreat www.villaflora.si. (Central Europe). Lately she has been very much attracted by explosive energy of the South-East Asia. Followed by extended stays in Hong Kong, Singapore, Bali, Indonesia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Chiang Mai, Thailand. Collaborations with Asian galleries as Instinc in Singapore, Wina in Bali, 116 Art Gallery in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She exhibited as a “New Find” at Art Singapore 2010 as well as extensively at AAF Singapore 2010. For 2012 she has personal exhibitions planed at Rotunda Gallery in Bangkok, The Substation Arts Center in Singapore, Dubai International Art Center as well as many group museum shows in Slovenia.

Tjaša Iris is also the founder of Villa Flora Artist in Residency Program - Branik Rihemberk Artists' Colony in Branik village, Slovenia.

She is organizing and holding painting workshops since 1996.

See Tjaša Iris on WIKIPEDIA pages:

- in Slovenian http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tjasa_Iris

ABOUT TJAŠA IRIS Paintings: www.tjasairis.com

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CLIENT LIST:

UBS Zurich

The American Museum of Natural History, New York

Barclays London

British Airways

Luftahansa

Amazon

Adobe

Ward - Young Architects, California

Orange County Schools

City of Sidney (Urban Design)

Anglo American

Banktechnology.com

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art

Northern Arizona University

Revlon

Nease/McDonald, Interior Design

Mayo Clinic Hospital, Arizona

Teetan and Associates

JPMorgan Chase

Sex & the City

Pfizer

Targa

Lenox Hill Hospital

Isabel Le Roux, South Africa

The American Jewish Committee

Universita' di Napoli

Mars

Clarus & Fidelis Consulting

Elan

People Magazine

Tour Strategies, AU

MBM Intellectual Property Law LLP

Ann Warner, Louisiana

Boston Globe

SB Biotechnology

Charles Henderson High School,Troy, Alabama

Mary Pat Fuchs Artist’s Residency in Tuscany

Fondazione Villa Benzi Zecchin, Caerano di San Marco

MORE ABOUT THE PROGRAM

"THE PATH OF VAN GOGH"

Historical notes about Van Gogh in Provence

VAN GOGH AT ARLES

Vincent Van Gogh arrived to Arles on Monday 20 February, with the aim to found "L'atelier du Midi" (atelier of the South), a home for artists, that could there study the magic luminous light of the South. He was then 35 years old. He had just approached Japanese painting. Arles was suggested to him by Toulouse-Lautrec.

Hotel Dieu - garden of Van Gogh's hospital in Arles

VAN GOGH AT SAINT REMY

Van Gogh came to Saint Remy de Provence on 8th May 1889. He lived at hospital Saint Paul de Mausole. His work from this period is most extraordinary. He produced 150 paintings and drawings.
Vincent Van Gogh asked Theo, his brother to give him on his disposition two rooms, one toward the garden and the hills of des Alpilles. He painted numerous landscapes, he was very attracted by cypresses.

On 16st May 1890 Van Gogh leaves Saint Remy de Provence for Auvers sur Oise.

lavanders and poppies

Saint Paul de Mausole, Van Gogh's hospital at Saint Remy

Landscape painting workshop. We will be painting on the paths around places that Van Gogh loved to paint most in the last years of his life.
Strong emphasis on color theory. Slides of contemporary and modern art will be shown each evening with emphasis on Van Gogh’s paintings.

We will gather each morning and live for our painting locations. Four days will be completely dedicated to the work of Vincent Van Gogh and his presence at Arles and Saint Remy. We will visit the places where he painted his most beautiful paintings during his stay in Provence. Two days of our painting holidays will be dedicated to magic blue-violet lavender fields, for those who will join us in July or red poppies for those who will join us in May, that are going to be flourishing in that precise moment of the year. We will also visit historical villages, castles, wine farms with their spectacular gardens and landscape.

Tjasa will also introduce you to wine of the area and take you to local wine tastings.

The nature in this places didn't change much since Van Gogh was painting there. It remained green, savage, magnificly preserved. It remained a harbor of peace. You will discover it while walking and painting along it's paths of light perfume and luminous sun of the "Midi".

Emphasis will be put on perception and observation, as the bases to painting. I will help you develop your personal outlook, as well as inspire your imagination in all this magical places and to help you appreciate art to the full. We will paint 4 hours every morning.
You may work on sketches for the first few days, and than proceed to more accomplished works derived from these last. Or you may simply paint two or three works a day. If for some reason, you want to wonder and explore the territory during these days, you are pleased to do so.
We will meet again in the evening, discuss the work done during the day and see numerous slides of contemporary and modern art.

Chateau de Roussan at Saint Remy

Admissions are opened to 8 participants of all levels, from the beginners to advanced.
I realize how important it is for you to travel light. I will provide all you need for your lessons: acrylic paints, brushes, canvases, paper, French easels, chairs... (just if you wish to work in any different mediums, I ask you to bring your own paints).

Because the workshop is limited to 8 participants, I encourage you to send your enrolment form with deposit as soon as possible. In event of inclement weather, arrangements will be made for indoor painting. There will be no rain dates or refunds for inclement weather.

I encourage non painter partners to join us for daily excursions, meals and the evening art appreciation course by offering them reduced rates.

This workshop is consecrated to the love that Van Gogh had for the luminous South of France. In the memory of his project – dream that he named: "l'Atelier du Midi" (a residency for artists in Southern France).

DAY BY DAY PROGRAM

DAY 1 we meet at 7.30 pm in the hall of Hotel La Muette. We will have dinner after that.

La Muette rooms: ...our first night dinner place near:

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DAY 2 we paint from 9 am until 1 pm at the park where Van Gogh was painting. In the afternoon we go to see place of the "Yellow house" of Van Gogh. Slides at 6 pm and dinner after that.

......yellow house of Van Gogh:

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DAY 3 we paint at Hotel Dieu garden (hospital of Van Gogh, where he painted a very famous painting) Slides at 6 pm and dinner after that.

painting at Hotel Dieu:

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DAY 4 we move to the country side near Saint Remy in the morning, to our farm house. You will paint in the country side around the farm house. Slides at 6 pm and dinner after that.

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DAY 5

Visit to Saint Paul de Mausole, Van Gogh's hospital at Saint Remy. Lunch at a farmhouse. Painting around Saint Paul de Mausole. Slides at 6.30 pm.

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Saint Paul de Mausole's Hospital (Van Gogh's hospital) and park

lunch at a farm Mas de la Pyramide

................................................ ... painting around Van Gogh's hospital

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DAY 6 painting at lavender fields. Visit to Chateau Romanin wine cellar in the afternoon. Slides at 6 pm and dinner in Saint Remy after that.

Provence in July:

Provence in May:

............................................. olive growth on the edge of Chateau de Roussan's park

winery of Chateau Romanin: ..........................dinner in Saint Remy ......

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DAY 7

In the morning painting at the farm. Afternoon for finishing paintings and visit to the village of Le Beaux and Chateau Estoublan, and another wine cellar Cave de Serragan. Final critique. Slides of Tjaša's work. Dinner at Chateau de Roussan.

final critique