One of the last three workshops in the world...
Is our world getting darker? Literally, illumination consists in illuminating the text. Today, Richard Leray, the Festina Lente workshop, is now the only one ("for the time being", he hopes) in France and in Europe, to practice this profession registered with the INMA, the national institute of art crafts, under the name "Imagier au Pochoir". The only one... Twilight of a know-how?
To transmit...
Richard Leray nevertheless seeks to pass on this know-how and offers courses to those who possess the necessary skills, namely "patience, vigilance, care, precision, sensitivity"!
The minimum duration is one week... and a white coat!
To transmit, still, by interventions in schools... on the program, the rediscovery of writing (and there is work!), the awareness of what a letter, which is "a name, a sound, a form", is a character, and then, of course, the presentation of the "marriage of the text and the image" which is the illumination, with realizations.
Meet...
Of course, Richard Leray has the pleasure and passion to welcome you in his workshop, in the heart of the village of Fontevraud L'Abbaye, and to make you discover the principles of stencil art illumination, a technique that appeared in the fourteenth century, before printing.
It is impossible, in a few lines, to describe, or even to make you feel, all the complexity and all the richness of this ancestral know-how whose fruits can be found in about twenty countries, under his signature.
So, simply push the door!
Richard Leray
Festina Lente
16, allée Sainte-Catherine
49590 Fontevraud L'Abbaye
Phone : 02 41 51 80 42 - 07 87 07 32 44
richardleray49@gmail.com
http://www.atelier-festinalente.com/
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