Traces of colour on the carved walls of Saint-Ours in Loches provide the starting point for a medieval painting workshop. Participants draw a design, learn a historical paint recipe and bring their work to life with colours they have made. Accompanying adults can create alongside children, connecting close observation of the church with practical experimentation.
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Que demain reste: Memory and Possible Futures
Transformed objects and low-tech materials join painting and installation in Que demain reste. Farah Bahhar and Anaël Alaoui-Fdili, graduates of the École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges, explore memory, inheritance and personal stories. Their works move between contemporary art and science-fiction imaginings, asking how places and past experiences shape possible futures.
Les Bretons dans tous leurs états: Maryse Vanghent
Brittany supplies the inspiration for Maryse Vanghent’s Les Bretons dans tous leurs états. Originally from Dunkirk, the painter trained in egg tempera and oil painting before making her home in the region. Her practice also includes restoring chapel murals at Château de Blain with the Compagnons de Saint-Roch, a background in craft that accompanies this exhibition of her own work.
sur George Sand avec Poulin’art
The artists of Poulin’art join forces at the Lignières public library for a collective exhibition of paintings devoted to George Sand. Each creation contributes to a shared act of commemoration through contemporary visual practice, moving beyond biography alone. Seen together, the works allow multiple artistic responses to coexist around a figure whose literary presence remains deeply connected to Berry. The library setting keeps that dialogue close to readers and to the everyday circulation of Sand’s books. It also places local creation beside literary memory, giving the tribute a distinctly communal scale. The exhibition shows how a canonical writer can continue to prompt new images, personal interpretations and conversations among artists and audiences in Lignières.
George Sand Dendrite Workshop
This introductory workshop explores dendrite making with George Sand as its guiding figure. Participants work with ink and watercolour to create branching, landscape-like forms, learning how controlled gesture and chance can meet on the page. The technique offers a practical route into Sand’s visual interests, complementing the literary image through which she is more commonly known. Open to a broad range of participants, the session emphasises experimentation while still giving enough structure to understand the process and its materials. Completed work is intended for later exhibition, allowing individual studies to become part of a shared display. In Mehun-sur-Yèvre, the workshop connects hands-on image making with Berry’s continuing engagement with Sand, showing how a historical artistic practice can prompt close attention to form, landscape and imagination.
George Sand autrement
George Sand autrement pairs the exhibition George Sand: la femme libre with Pierre Buvat’s book-abécédaire Sur les pas de George Sand… aux pays des rêves. The exhibition introduces Sand through the idea of freedom, while Buvat’s alphabet-book format offers a second, more personal path through places, themes and imaginative associations. Together, the two forms encourage visitors to move between a public portrait of the writer and a sequence of literary prompts. The pairing is compact but suggestive: one element establishes Sand’s independent presence, and the other follows her through a landscape of dreams. The result favors curiosity and association over a strictly chronological biography. In Baugy, this dialogue between exhibition and book gives Berry audiences a fresh way to approach a figure deeply connected with the region’s literary memory.
George Sand Dendrite Experiment
Expérimentation Dendrites introduces George Sand’s visual practice through a compact, hands-on watercolour workshop in Saint-Amand-Montrond. Participants use the dendrite technique to generate branching, organic marks that can be developed into bucolic landscapes. Chance supplies the first forms, but observation and individual decisions determine how each image takes shape. The small group, limited to eight people, allows close attention to materials and to the transformation from accidental pattern to composed scene. Open to all levels, the session reveals an artistic dimension of Sand beyond her writing and reconnects her love of landscape with the immediate pleasure of making one appear on paper through colour, water, pressure, patience and careful close looking.
A la façon de George Sand
A la façon de George Sand offers several practical ways to approach the writer as both visual artist and correspondent. Participants can try Sand-inspired painting, build a personal artist’s notebook and work with pen and ink through dictation drawn from her texts. Another activity, developed with Mot-Zaïque, explores the encrypted correspondence between Sand and Alfred de Musset, turning a literary relationship into a problem of codes and language. Different strands are adapted for children, teenagers and adults, allowing skill level and subject to vary without losing the common cultural thread. Within the Saint-Doulchard workshop, heritage becomes something made, read and decoded by hand. The combination of image, notebook, script and cipher reveals how creative practice can connect close observation with the private forms through which writers communicate.
Visions Bretonnes in Plougoulm: Corentin Kembraeg Exhibition
Visions Bretonnes presents the work of Corentin Kembraeg at the Médiathèque Ty Koulm in Plougoulm. The exhibition centres on Breton culture through the work of a self-taught illustrator and painter. Admission is free, and a vernissage accompanies the exhibition.
Exposition Chapelle Sainte Anne in Saint-Broladre: Art Show
Exposition Chapelle Sainte Anne places contemporary art inside a small Breton chapel whose restoration remains part of the story. Pastels, paintings, watercolors, graphic pieces and photography share the space, so the building reads as both gallery and protected local monument. The seasonal program also keeps the Pardon Ste Anne and the Fête des Peintres in view, linking Saint-Broladre’s religious setting with living artistic practice.