Written testimonials: discover what Artquarium students have to say

Dive into the heart of our students’ experiences at L’Artquarium through their written testimonies.

Each return is an open window on their artistic journey with us, reflecting their evolution, their discoveries, and the impact of our courses on their passion.

These words, carefully collected, attest to L’Artquarium’s commitment to offering quality training, adapted to each budding artist.

Read, feel and understand what makes our workshop so special to those who have experienced it.

The pleasure of continuing to learn painting with a coach to progress

From 2008 to 2015, I regularly and assiduously attended the Artquarium in Geneva. A “break” of around 18 to 24 months (and solitary pictorial work at home) convinced me of my need for coaching...

The courses at the Artquarium have the originality of taking into account each person’s pace.

A bit like inside the different compositions of a painting. This course allows us to evolve according to our desires and artistic pleasures while gradually accessing essential knowledge...

Creative research

Currently in creative research, I have taken 10 courses at the Artquarium. I learned to organize space, to see beyond the anecdote of a drawing which in the end is not so important...

Painting as an escape

Last July, I had some health problems and decided to start drawing and painting to take my mind off things...

At the Artquarium I learned more than anywhere else

At the Artquarium, I learned more about the shapes and composition of images than anywhere else. Gilbert is an excellent instructor...

What a magnificent path!

I started lessons 3 years ago. What a magnificent path! We can integrate everyone at their own pace, the rules, the concepts, the structures...

And then… I entered the Artquarium Workshop

For 2-3 years I painted - in my own way, more and more dissatisfied, and then...I entered the Artquarium workshop, and everything changed...

Painting has always fascinated me

I didn't understand how and why certain works could upset me and others not. I thought it was mainly due to the painter's drawing technique, the randomness of the colors, the perspective of certain paintings...

It's been about fifteen years since I last drew

Nor painted when my wife offered me a semester of courses at the Artquarium, to reconnect me with my old passion. With happiness, because I have returned for a second season!

Nurture the inner child

Walking through the door of the Artquarium is like entering your home to nourish the inner child within us. The master of the place, Mr. Wolfisberg, a passionate and exciting character...

All good things have rules

Cooking is more than just boiling food. Tapping the keys of a piano will not make you a pianist. As we will have understood, the search for visual harmony advances armed with principles, rules, methods, more or less strict and evolving...

Artquarium for me

I am really fortunate to have found L'Artquarium. It is a peaceful and beautiful place that allows me to discover my own creativity from within. I very much appreciate my teacher, Gilbert, who has deep and vast knowledge of art...

It was a bit by chance that I discovered the Artquarium

It was by chance that I discovered the Artquarium. But I know exactly why I stayed there and still continue to learn at this school. I realized that despite having a good foundation in drawing...

Thanks

I started drawing at the Artquarium with the aim of being able to draw metal sculptures to create them later...

Artquarium Experience

I started taking painting classes at the artquarium in June 2015 and I have attended them very regularly every week since then. I have always been interested in art history and have frequented exhibitions...

Little tribute to Artquarium and its master Gilbert Wolfisberg

Artquarium is an artistic course in all its fullness: a rare return to the sources in the fullness of the word. The many basic notions of drawing (shapes, volume, shading, reflections, etc.) and painting...

It’s almost a year since I had the pleasure of participating in Artquarium classes.

I have long dreamed of a space-time dedicated to creativity, to the discovery of different pictorial techniques, to learn to look, to see the world differently and, little by little, to dare to create my own images...

After 7 years of absence

I started drawing and painting when I was a teenager. I had no technique but a lot of desire to express myself without having to speak. I studied Fine Arts in London after completing an Artistic Baccalaureate...

I feel like a fish in a bowl of colors

Although I have been tempted by painting for a long time, it is only a short time since I gave myself the time to immerse myself in this world of creativity...

After searching for several drawing lessons

The one offered by the Artquarium caught my attention for many reasons: you can come to any course, it is not a strict course like many others and the photos and videos on the site gave me want to go there. During my first lesson, Gilbert asked me to draw an apple...

Almost three years

I arrived at the Artquarium in the spring of 2012 after a short experience learning drawing in a French artistic expression association which was about to close its doors...

A look at the Artquarium

I like its structuring, necessary and lively techniques. With the golden ratio, geometries and rhythms, shapes have activity. Colors have weight, contrasts, tones, equivalences and temperatures...

Having already taken drawing lessons for 10 years

Before starting my classes at the Artquarium last year, this creative and artistic workplace is unique! I can say that I truly understood the value and theory of art more deeply than ever before...

High quality teaching and a place of expression

From my first classes, I understood that I had done well to enter the Artquarium; I actually found exactly what I needed there: high-quality teaching and a place to express myself...

Rare, exceptionally rare

Are the places where the secrets of the great painters and composition are still transmitted! Artistic expression has literally exploded over these decades in varied and sometimes incomprehensible forms...

This workshop that can meet my expectations

I have been painting on Meissen style porcelain for years and I felt the great need to learn drawing techniques in order to improve my works...

The best painting school

Indeed, there is a balance, rarely achieved by other schools, between leisure and learning. If some come just to relax after the office, others to perfect a hidden passion or finally, those who want to lay a solid foundation in order to fly to other skies...

ArtQuarium is MY air bubble

For a year and a half, 3 hours during which I find myself and discover myself, question myself about what I expect from my creations and what ultimately they send back to me. And all this, in a welcoming place...

Childhood dream

As a child, I loved drawing, happily immersing myself in this colorful universe where characters came to life far from a sometimes unpleasant reality. All children draw...

This is what I learned

This is what I learned from Gilbert Wolfisberg. I am a self-taught artist and painting is more than a passion for me, it is my intimate universe, my element, my life...

Teaching at the Artquarium goes well beyond

About 4 years ago, I walked through the door of the Artquarium to take my first drawing/painting class since high school. What I learned there more than met my expectations...

Structures, rhythms, harmony, spectra, equivalences

What barbaric words, provoking a total darkness in my mind! Finally ! The day breaks and the sun shines when Gilbert begins to comment, dissect and reveal the secrets of a work...

Artistic science

Great find! First of all, I was a little surprised that the successful paintings were not because the painter, in his artistic delirium, had a fertile stroke of madness but because he knows how to use a precise and rich language to compose your paintings...

Before climbing the few steps that lead to the workshop

We cannot imagine the atmosphere that reigns at the Artquarium. Supported by music and perfume, we enter a world where words like “rhythmic structure” or “scale of values” become the keys to successful paintings...

As soon as I enter the Artquarium I change world

And I completely lose track of time. Music takes us around the world and there is a relaxed and regenerating atmosphere that we would never want to leave. It’s a whole universe of reflections...

Gloups, a fish named Lorraine

I have always loved drawing, that's why I wanted to perfect my passion, and being a student of art history, I wanted to approach painting and pencil in another, more practical way...

Learn the keys to language

As a student of the Artquarium for over 2 years, it is with great pleasure that I can tell you about this workshop. Indeed, although having attended the school of decorative arts, as well as some attempts in various courses taught in Geneva...

My life can be summed up in one word: Art

During classes at the Artquarium, I like to clear my thoughts, draw... There, I can improve my skills, ask questions when I have doubts. It's time to relax in the week...

Entrance exam for Applied Arts

I would like to thank Gilbert and Sebastian for their teaching which allowed me to successfully pass the entrance exam to the School of Applied Arts...

A big thank-you

Throughout my childhood I loved drawing... A few years ago I took painting lessons. I had the impression that my paintings were always missing something. Often I asked myself questions such as: “How did the masters manage to make these masterpieces so attractive to people? "...

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