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Ateliers M Hélène Métézeau – Centre d’Art autour de l’Osier

The Centre d’Art autour de l’osier is listed by the French Ministry of Culture and the French Ministry of Education. It is a permanent cultural venue open to guided tours at 11am and 3pm, and private visits by prior arrangement. It includes a wicker garden and a potted wicker garden, a braiding and weaving gallery and a three-room gallery of installations, wicker painting and sculptures, a store, a material library and a documentation center.

The activity rooms for basketry workshops and courses are air-conditioned and accessible to families, groups, disabled people, individuals and professionals who wish to be accompanied in their technical and/or creative practices. For schools from kindergarten through to art schools, please ask for our educational brochure and consult the Adage/Pass culture platform.

The works presented at the Centre d’Art autour de l’Osier are commissioned from artists who primarily use wicker as a material.

Schedule of conferences and events at www.lespaniersdhelene.com

M Hélène Métézeau is a Maître Artisan d’Art and has benefited from ancestral knowledge for over 8 generations. Committed for many years to constant research into wicker materials, she makes her processes and materials available to artists and companies. She accompanies designers in their projects, which pushes her to go ever further in her knowledge of the material to the benefit of new sources of textile fibers, new braiding stitches or models with wicker structures and contemporary designs.

Basket-making technique courses and exploration workshops all year round: availability and booking on www.lespaniersdhelene.com

Possibility of professional training agreement – training course for wickerwork specialists for artists, health-care personnel, educators, basket makers. Contact us by e-mail mhelenemetezeau@gmail.com

MATERIALS: Raw and debarked wicker, stained wicker. Wicker splints. Wicker bark. Cuticle and tannins. Wicker bast mats. Wicker cellulose fiber.

BEAUX-ARTS: Wicker paper, wicker paint – tempera and pigment, wicker charcoal, calligraphy with wicker calamus and ink.

Ateliers M Hélène Métézeau – Centre d’Art autour de l’Osier

Marie-Hélène Métézeau

50, rue de la Galandière
37190 Villaines-les-Rochers

mhelenemetezeau@gmail.com

06 21 73 09 40