This year at the Artquarium workshop was an opportunity to develop a new approach to drawing and painting. The best allegory that comes to mind is that of settling in a new country. From the outside, many tourist magazines will give you an idea, with beautiful, sanitized photos that may or may not attract you.
But a true understanding of this new world will require us to accept new rules, of course, a new language and perhaps a different way of thinking. Like a foreign country, the art world has its own language, its own history, its own rules of composition and so on. These will enable an observer to translate a painting or a newcomer to understand the mentality of its inhabitants.
Of course, our sensitivity and personality will make it easier to integrate into one country rather than another, just as 2 painters, using the same rules of composition, will not affect us in the same way. In this way, I've also come to understand that these basic rules are not dictatorial boundaries, but tools and means for expressing our own sensibility. Knowing them can only give us a much greater vocabulary with which to express ourselves and make ourselves understood.
Even though I still know very little about the rules or the history, I'd like to thank our charming "G.O.s "* Gilbert and Sébastian for allowing me to discover, or rather rediscover, the existence and richness of this ancient continent, which now seems totally new to me, and so thank you for giving me the desire to pick up my hiking boots again to learn even more and discover new landscapes full of bright, colorful rhythms!!!!
To future Artquarium visitors, grab your brushes and hold on tight!!!

Karine