Join Artist Nino Yuniardi for an intuitive creative retreat exploring and developing your artistic skills. Where we show up for our art, and the art meets us halfway.
About this course:
Meet You Halfway is an invitation to show up for yourself and your art – without forcing, rushing, or overworking.
This workshop with Nino Yuniardi is about building a relationship with your work where effort and ease can coexist. You’ll learn how to show up with intention, pay attention to what’s already there, and respond rather than push. When we meet the work with care and curiosity, it has a way of meeting us back.
Through guided studio sessions, gentle structure, and time to explore, we’ll focus on creating work that feels alive, open, and honest. We’ll work small to large, explore gesture, color, and composition, and practice stopping before the work is overdone. Just enough. No more, no less. This is not about making perfect paintings. It’s about learning how to stay present, trust your instincts, and develop a sustainable rhythm you can carry forward into your everyday practice.
Programme outline – Painting Holiday with Nino Yuniardi
Saturday
4.00 – Check-in time from 4pm onwards. Guests arrive, settle in and explore Clos Mirabel
6.00 – Welcome drinks and dinner
Sunday
8.30 – 9.30 Buffet breakfast of local and regional produce
10.00 – 1.00 Introduction, expectation setting, warm up
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch at Clos Mirabel
2.30 – 4.30 Demo – working small, working on color, and mark making
6.00 – Aperitifs before 4 course dinner in the Manor House or on the terrace
Monday
8.30 – 9.30 Buffet breakfast of local and regional produce
10.00 – 1.00 Demo – Color, design composition, working small to medium
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch at Clos Mirabel
2.30 – 4.30 Putting things together, Layers.
6.00 – Aperitifs before 4 course dinner in the Manor House or on the terrace
Tuesday
8.30 – 9.30 Buffet breakfast of local and regional produce
10.00 – 1.00 Demo – How to pivot and embrace layers
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch at Clos Mirabel
2.30 – 4.30 Working medium to large
6.00 – Aperitifs before 4 course dinner in the Manor House or on the terrace
Wednesday – day off
8.30 – 9.30 Buffet breakfast of local and regional produce
We suggest wine tasting in local vineyard, explore Pau or beyond
6.00 – Aperitifs before 4 course dinner in the Manor House or on the terrace
Thursday
8.30 – 9.30 Buffet breakfast of local and regional produce
10.00 – 1.00 Demo – Working large
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch at Clos Mirabel
2.30 – 4.30 Continue working large, layer and pivot
6.00 – Aperitifs before 4 course dinner in the Manor House or on the terrace
Friday
8.30 – 9.30 Buffet breakfast of local and regional produce
10.00 – 1.00 Title, stories and abstractions
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch at Clos Mirabel
2.30 – 4.30 Wrapping up getting ready for show and tell.
6.00 – Evening exhibition in the atelier and aperitifs before 4 course dinner in the Manor House or on the terrace
Saturday
8.30 – 9.30 Buffet Breakfast and departure (Check-out 11am)
Non-participating guests: we are more than happy to welcome non-drawing guests, accompanying partners, family or friends. There are plenty of activities to experience around Clos Mirabel, that will make your holiday unforgettable Click here for more information.
The Art Studio, offers a spacious open plan layout of 75 m2. It is available at all times during your stay. Click here for more information.
