For one week in August, coinciding with the North Hatley Jazz Festival, Arts-Cultures Massawippi offered visual arts workshops for adults and children at Dreamland Park.
On sunny afternoons by Lake Massawippi, renowned artists participated in these exchanges with the public and agreed to show their work and demonstrate their techniques.
Lyne Tremblay invites painting enthusiasts with no experience to express themselves spontaneously on canvas, using a range of colors and, above all, following their intuitive impulses. The results are sometimes astonishing, as evidenced by the works created in just a few hours by three participants.
Multidisciplinary artist Anne Lavoie has a special talent for connecting with children and adults alike. This year, she offered them a maracas workshop, and they responded enthusiastically!
Wood sculptor Pauline Jacques and painter-lithographer Vincent Dubost set up their tables under the gazebo and gave the public a demonstration of their respective arts. One exhibits birds that she carves from wood in strict accordance with their natural dimensions; the other reproduces images on various materials using a lithography technique. Both attracted a great deal of interest from visitors
