Galerie le Moulin, Workshop beeldhouwen in Bram door Jan Bakermans

Sculpture course in the South of France

A workshop on sculpture will be organized in the inspiring south of France from August Sunday 12th till Friday 17th. It will take place in the idyllic watermill of Bram. Supervisor is sculptor Jan Bakermans (The Netherlands). Participation is open for beginning and advanced sculptors.

The workshop
The workshop will count a maximum of 12 participants, who work daily from 9H30 till 12H30 on a subject of their own choice. Professional equipment will be provided as well as a piece of stone (rather soft: Sireuil or Grès de Juneda). Sculptor Jan Bakermans will assist on the spot. If the weather is fine the work will take place in the garden of the watermill. If this is not possible, the sculpting is inside. At 12H30 lunch will be served. After lunch the participants can go on working on the stone (with the supervisor), but they can also have a swim in the pool or a walk in the neighbourhood. .

Price
The participation for the workshop costs € 300,= per person. The price includes the assistance, the lunches, the stone and the use of the materials. Also included are three lectures in the evenings about the history of art sculpting. .

Hosting
The guesthouse of the watermill has three double bed rooms. These rooms can each be reserved at € 50,= per night (breakfast included). Next to the bedrooms are two separate bathrooms and there is a recreation room with bar facilities.

The parking offers room for a camper or caravan for € 12,50 per night. The garden gives the opportunity for placing a tent for € 10,-- per night.

For subscription, reservation or further information: email l: moulindeleau@orange.fr

The sculptor
Jan Bakermans

The abstract or figurative sculpture of Jan Bakermans (65, Academy for Visual Arts in Arendonk, Belgium) owe their existence to his sharp observation of reality. Strength and dynamics are the characteristics that catches the eye. But more than a precise anatomy, the spiritual expression is the purpose of his portraits, torsos and human figures. By studies in clay after model with much attention for the natural attitude and expression he will achieve an honest interpretation in plaster or stone.

His abstract statues have also been derived from the observed reality. In rudimentary forms, e.g. a broken branche, he recognizes universal values, that are represented symbolically. An old skate inspires him to threedimensional graphic lines in which the form of the original skate and the lines of the scratches on the ice are to be recognized. Bakermans is specifically inspired by organic forms and human figures, but also by the works of great artists. Once, by seeing Goya’s Nude Maja he brought the sensual attraction back to a linear Construction in which Goya’s language of seduction became tangible.
Another source of inspiration is his technical and theoretic background from his old profession as a teacher mechanical engineering. When he found a piece of marble that came from an ornament of an old abby, he sculpted a statue in which the history of the stone revived.

Galerie Le Moulin