

Jamie Oliver is one of the most successful and trusted British celebrities with a 10-year career of best selling books and hit television series behind him. He is also one of the UK's most famous exports, recognised in over 50 countries around the world.
Here at Atelier Avenda we are selling the mini cheeky range of mugs in a tin.
For the moment, these are only available at the gallery.



Teddies and Hollyhocks
Atelier Avenda has started to sell Teddy Bears alongside the art. You might think that...
get painting
Start painting; whoever you are reading this blog that means you. Paint, do art, move...
hello talmont sur gironde
I can hardly believe it but we are here, where the estuary peeks out at...
the atelier is on the move
In the corner of a small square, at the centre of a small town, in...
all change
What have we done now? What we started to do, was to buy another...
unpainted ladies
Have embarked on a new series of figurative paintings and am rather liking it so...
summer is a comin’ in
Time to get painting before the summer really hits. The Friday markets are starting to...

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Start painting; whoever you are reading this blog that means you. Paint, do art, move colour round a surface with a brush, your fingers, an old credit card, it doesn’t matter how or what. If you haven’t done it since you were five then so much the better. Paint on a piece of cardboard, use the inside of the cornflakes box, find the children’s crayons. No excuses. Need something to paint? Then look. Painting teaches you to look. Look at the shadows falling on a face. Look at the infinite colours in a cloudy sky. Looking is good.
Ready to paint at last. The skies are vast, the seas inspirational and the clear light is everything an artist could wish for. My senses are ajangle.
A last look at the first Atelier Avenda, the small gallery we have lived and loved in the town square, under the medieval stone arches of the French bastide town called Monségur. But since atelier means workshop there will soon be another. 

