Les Ateliers Spire Création

Our ATELIER RURAL, the brainchild of the Spire Création association, has just celebrated its 24th anniversary.
Originally set up in Ligny en Brionnais, in the south of Saône et Loire between Marcigny and Charlieu, the association welcomed its students and trainees in a renovated stable with whitewashed walls. Some people didn't hesitate to come from Gueugnon, Macon, Roanne, Paray le Monial and Marcigny to take part in the sessions and courses.

Today, our association is based in Saint Emiland and pursues the same objective: to awaken the creative potential that lies dormant in everyone, to develop training in the plastic arts, to contribute to leisure activities and to promote inter-generational relations. Depending on the workshops chosen, what could be more enjoyable than to see people over 75 meeting young people or children?

WORKSHOPS FROM THE AGE OF 5 often begin with a story chosen to STIMULATE THE IMAGINATION; it then gives free rein to free and accompanied expression: drawing, gouache painting, collage, making little books, postcards, masks, etc., depending on what the children want and the time of year.

With YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS, we tackle the COMPREHENSION OF VOLUMES and their transposition, the question of COLOURS, HARMONIES, THE HISTORY OF ART...
No subject is taboo, and depending on the artist's motivations, the workshop welcomes on its easels : Animals from the countryside or the jungle, Boats, Landscapes, Compositions of objects or floral compositions... Documentary studies of objects found in nature... Live models or fashion design. All techniques are covered: Gouache, Charcoal and sanguine, Pastel, Acrylic, Watercolour, Mixed media...

Workshops and courses take place in a CONVIVIAL - and temperate! - setting, with a large GARDEN FLOWERED AND WOODED for breaks. MICHEYLE MARLIER takes great pleasure in working with each trainee to ensure the success of their individual and/or group project.

MICHEYLE MARLIER is a PLASTIC ART TEACHER, a Popular Education Project Leader and a Storyteller. She is also a fashion designer and professional trainer for young people and adults. As part of the Ateliers Spire Création, she has worked on various artistic projects with associations in the Saône et Loire and Autunois regions. For a number of years, she has worked with the French Ministry of Education on artistic projects for children aged 3 to 12.
She has exhibited at the Grand Palais and in galleries in Paris and the provinces; she has won many prizes but she no longer exhibits at present, preferring to devote herself to her pupils and to her work as a studio artist and PORTRAITIST, which she particularly enjoys.