Group courses
My wish has always been to make stained glass and geometry accessible to as many people as possible. The group courses offer one more way to serve this goal that I hold so dear.
The principle remains the same: from cutting to soldering, the complete method, the tools yours to keep, autonomy guaranteed when you leave. If it were not so, these courses would not exist. But their nature is different. I will be there, whole, but less available one-on-one than in a private course.
What changes in a group course
Practical info
- AccommodationThe communal tentThe heart of the experience: a large tent raised on the property, behind the workshop, under the hundred-year-old oaks. Six beds, a kitchen corner (camp stoves and a small fridge), a solar shower and a dry toilet, a water fountain inside. The house is not accessible and there is no electricity: we live self-sufficiently, as close to nature as can be. Bed linen is provided; bring your toiletry bag, and a small solar charger awaits so you are not cut off from the world. Count 50 € for the 3-day course, 70 € for the 5-day one.By van or camperSettle freely in the garden, nothing to add to the course price. The garden has no electrical hookup: you stay self-sufficiently, as in the tent.In a guest roomIn the village, close to the workshop; I can point you to the good addresses (about 50 €/night, paid on site).
- ArrivalOn the first day, we all meet at the workshop between 9 and 9:30 am, over coffee, with time to get acquainted and discover the place; at 10 am, the course begins. On the following days, the day opens at 8:30 am and runs until 5 pm. Whether you stay in the shared tent, your own tent, a van or a camper, you are welcome to arrive the evening before and settle in quietly.
- DepartureOn the evening of the last course day, or the next morning if you wish to linger a little.
- Your creationsThey leave with you, or are shipped by parcel, just as I export my geometries all over the world.
- AvailabilityFrom 4 to 5 people, to remain a small group where everyone finds their place.
- PriceAdvantageous, as the group format allows a lighter price than the private one.
- After the courseThe bond continues: a mutual-help group brings former participants together, and I answer there to carry on the guidance. Everyone is invited to join at the end of their course.
The formats
Three days to approach one of the two methods, your choice, and lay the foundations that make you autonomous.
The way of the solids.
The solids are a marvel: some, quick to make, are no less spectacular, and the choice of shapes is vast.
On the first day, we make a cube, step by step. It is not yet a matter of aesthetics: it is the time for discovering the tools, getting a feel for them, sensing the workshop. The hand does, and the mind learns. We begin with cutting, using the ArtiZi·OM Design tools, then we wrap each face in copper and raise the structure in three dimensions, as one would assemble a model, each angle seating the one before. Finally, we approach the soldering. On the following days, we repeat the same gestures on a large icosahedron, 30 cm across, but this time we carry it through to the end. The ample format leaves time to tame the soldering and bring forth a spectacular work.
The way of the spiral.
Zomes are diamonds that must be earned; they are at once the process and the result, their beauty matched only by the pleasure of bringing them to life.
We make one together, a Zome 6 Yoni carried through whole. We take the time to make just one, fully. From cutting to assembly, when a star takes shape, to the soldering that crystallizes the whole, and the closing that seals the piece. We make it in its hanging version, for knowing how to make it hanging already means knowing how to make it freestanding.
Where the 3-day course asks you to choose between solid and spiral, giving yourself 5 days leaves time to approach both methods, while refining the soldering.
We first lay the foundations with a solid, the cube, to tame the tools, discover the steps, the gestures. The night will settle the know-how, before setting off on a Zome 6 Yoni, the spiral's first flight, carried through whole in its hanging version: knowing how to make it hanging already means knowing how to make it freestanding. The passage from one to the other lights up the whole method: what the rigor of the solid has taught, the spiral extends; and along the way, you understand that both are born of the same tree.
It is the most complete format, the one where you give up nothing. You leave with two geometries in your hands, and the overview of a craft that holds together.
The complete method, the tools yours to keep, autonomy guaranteed when you leave, as in a private course. The group allows a lighter price. Price for the course alone, accommodation extra (see Practical info).
A word on communal life. I offer this lodging in the intimate wish to make accessible all that can be, so that the course always comes first. A beautiful shared experience only has substance in the respect of each person, and I trust everyone's civic good sense to hear it. To share the tent is to accept silence from 10:30 pm, when a neighbor's rest comes before chatter, and to care for the place (no drunkenness, no substances). These few rules say only one thing: here, the collective comes before the individual, and I reserve the right to invite anyone who forgets it to leave.
Session calendar
Three sessions in 2027.
Book your place; the group takes shape together.
Travelling course
Courses offered all over France, in unusual and artistic places that welcome the method for a session.