"L'Art de Vivre", a French Art Retreat

My name’s Naïma, I’m a professional artist from Bordeaux. 

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Born in Normandie,  I grew up in an environment that inspired some of the most well-known artists of history, to name a few: Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre-Auguste Renoir…and where impressionism was born.

I visited at 11 years old the home of Claude Monet and it planted a dream in my heart that never faded. For as long as I remember, I have been creating, sketching, painting and spending time in nature, nourishing my creative spirit and growing into the artist that I am today.

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What I want to share with you during this Art Retreat is the knowledge that I have acquired the past 30 years while visiting marvelous places where painters were once living and painting: First in nature and then chateaux, villages, gardens and museums. 

How I became an artist and found my voice.​

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What I want to transmit are my techniques of plein air painting using watercolors and acrylic paint but most of all experience creating art in a peaceful and relaxing way, for your to reconnect with your creative energy, to be immersed in a place, to feel and to be able to translate that on a canvas.

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What our days will be like: Enjoying time visiting old villages, finding inspiration, eating delicious French dishes, pic-nic… it will be a blend of how it is to live where I live and finding joy in creating art in a stressless environment. No skill required.

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Finally, allowing ourselves to pause, slow down and share moments together.

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This Art Retreat is an invitation into my own world, it will be intimate and very special because it is the first edition of l’Art de Vivre.