Arts and crafts
Come and meet the region’s craftspeople and artists! Discover the many talents that abound in the Bassin Auterivain and unearth unique works and objects made using local know-how.
Brickworks Capelle, Grépiac
An emblematic architectural and landscaping feature of Toulouse, the manufacture of red brick is a local skill that has often been handed down from generation to generation! Find out more about this family-run business and the history of its traditional production since 1879! For 6 generations, the Capelle brickworks has perpetuated the manufacture and sale of raw and fired Toulouse bricks. Why not take home an Occitan cross made in Haute-Garonne as a 100% local souvenir?
Conditions
- Open Monday to Friday
- 8am to 12pm and 2pm to 5.30pm
Contact
- Guided tour by appointment
- +33 (0) 5 61 08 52 75
Sophie grimard, wood turner in Gaillac-Toulza
Sophie Grimard settled in Gaillac-Toulza in 2018, in an old farmhouse on the heights of the village. She creates decorative pieces based on the wood she finds and works from spontaneous and unique sketches. There are so many different stages in the process: Sophie collects the wood, uses a chainsaw to form a rough shape, then turns and finally rolls the material.
What’s special about most of Sophie’s pieces is the wide variety of finishes: texturing, burning, inlaying materials such as fluorescent plexiglass, gold leaf, pewter, acrylic resin, galalith… These techniques give the objects both a refined and modern character, in a daring but gentle combination. We love it!
Contact
- Visit the website
- +33 (0) 6 79 30 89 85
La toquée du fer, Auterive
Discover the work of Sophie Reuillon, La toquée du fer, a furniture and decorative object designer based in Auterive. Sophie works with materials and objects destined for the scrap heap to give them a second life.
‘Attentive to the environment, I use recycled materials and divert objects destined for destruction to give them a second life. Nature and materials inspire me and give me the opportunity to express myself. Combining iron and wood is an obvious choice for me. Strong, soft, hard, tender, cold, warm… they complement each other’.
Conditions
- Monday, 2pm to 5pm
- Tuesday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
- Saturday, 9am to 12pm
Contact
- +33 (0) 6 75 51 64 15
Les artisanes du Tracteur: the La Rougie workshop and the Samares workshop
Séverine Monter and Cécile Cuny have moved into a 70m² craft workshop in the Le Tracteur cultural centre in the hills above Cintegabelle.
Séverine Monter from Atelier La Rougie offers sustainable, colourful fabrics, clothes and accessories that are kind to the skin and kind to the planet! She uses dyeing plants and natural pigments, and by implementing reasoned and ecological dyeing processes, she perpetuates ancestral know-how, particularly with her indigo dyeing, which comes from fermenting vats that produce shimmering shades of blue.
Cécile Cuny, a visual artist and ceramist at the Atelier des Samares, mixes different materials and techniques, including ceramics: crockery, jewellery, sculptures, tiles, plaster and raw clay decorations. L’Atelier des Samares also offers modelling and throwing courses and workshops. The aim: to dare, to express yourself and to have fun!
Contact
- The rougie workshop | +33 (0) 6 18 09 80 07
- The Samares workshop | +33 (0)6 84 57 79 31
Nicolas Nabonne, visual artist, Auterive
Newly settled in the South of Toulouse region, Nicolas is opening the doors of his studio to you and offering introductory workshops in cyanotype. Families, art lovers, the curious and those involved in the cultural and artistic world are all welcome to take part in this artistic journey.
Cyanotype is a blue monochrome photographic process in which the image is revealed by exposure to sunlight and immersion of the paper support in water. Depending on your imagination, young and old alike will be able to experiment with this printing technique in a fun, hands-on way.
Conditions
- Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm
- Saturday from 10am to 1pm
Contact
- +33 (0) 7 52 03 35 85