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CHI QUNG [Chi Kung]
Chi Qung is the ancient art of cultivating your energy system to keep you in the optimum state of health. We have found that the Ferme du Soleil is a most ideal place to do this and we are very lucky to have a master to host a course here three times a year in October, January and June:
Sunday 11th October – Sunday 18th October 2009
Sunday 17th January -Sunday 25th January 2010
June 20th – June 27 2010
June 27th – July 4th 2010
Cost is £400 for accommodation and food and £300 each for 5 days of Chi Qung.
Participants’ wives, husbands and partners are welcome too.
FLOWER PAINTING and gold leafing and distressing on wood by Sarah Allan
A week in the mountains surrounded by the amazing Alpine alpage full of rare flowers as inspiration. Sarah who is well known for her beautiful flower painting in Crabtree and Evelyn’s shops worldwide will guide you through using the surrounding flowers to create masterpieces on wood onto anything from small objects to large armoires
Courses dates:
6th June 2010 -13th June 2010
13th June 2010 – 20th June 2010
PAINTING September 2010
I will have different artists in residence and will invite you to come and enjoy the beautiful back cloth of the Alps and enjoy painting them with the encouragement of the resident artist. I will confirm the name of the artists in the New Year. Current ideas are
Kathleen Caddick,
Isis potter to paint snowscaped on blue delft,
Jolomo,
CREATIVE WRITING Courses OCTOBER 2010.
I invite you to come and unlock your hidden talents with the help of the uninterrupted views, tinkling of cow bells, and the assistance of the artist in residence. Names to be released in the New Year. At the end of the course, we will enjoy Transhumance..the day when the farmers descend from the mountain with all their hundred of cows to winter in the valley
CHALET COOKING COURSE.
We will show you how to make the most of Regional alpine ingredients to feed people in the mountains in winter…every chalet cook should go on this! Ferme du Soleil Recipes……The best and easiest book to accompany.
Interested? Email us here
Sara Allan
Sara Allan has been exhibiting paintings of different styles for twenty years, during which time she has been constantly exploring and evolving methods most suited to express her vision.
Following a decade as a decorative special effects painter, which included painting murals, marbling, stenciling, etc, she became a still life artist, after the Dutch and Spanish tradition, using dark backgrounds to highlight and dramatise the subjects. These began as copies of old master painters such as Cotan and Zurburan, and later developed into her own compositions in the style of these earlier masters. She has also painted landscapes and, more recently, abstract paintings.”
“My training as a decorative painter has given me a fearlessness, an ability to tackle many genres on any scale, and a wide experience in all sorts of painting media. I have found great pleasure in sharing this knowledge with others, giving them the feeling that they can do it, with encouragement and few tips, which I have gathered over the years, and away they go. The aim is to start people off on their own paths of discovery.