Dialogues d'ateliers: Artistes à Meudon

Each year the artistes of Meudon open their ateliers, arrange an exhibition of their finest work, and invite the public on a weekend art walk. It's rather like a treasure hunt, one obtains a map from the Hotel de Ville (City Hall), or the Centre d'Art and wanders the streets of town discovering hidden treasures hiding in plein air. It's rather amusing to pass the Meudonaise trawling their village map in hand (like tourists), and one feels a common bond rarely experienced with one's neighbors. Each atelier is marked with a banner, and one enters with anticipation into gardens peppered with sculpture, paintings resting on easels next to lawn chairs, and workspaces that look like an episode of Hoarders. There are many temptations for the art lover, of course everything is for sale! Today I visited the ateliers of Raymond Duroyan, Bernadette Gallet, Claire Amosse, Irene Raymond, Jean-Pierre Dupressoir, Flavia Fenaroli, Gerard Gallen, Cho Nan-Young, Nathalie Tournesac, as well as the hilarious art of Pierre Rouilllon, currently on exhibition at the Centre d'Art. I was even seduced into buying something for myself, a beautiful aquarelle by Monsieur Raymond Duroyan. All the artistes were gracious and friendly, and I thank them all for allowing me to photograph their work!