2026, the year of homeworks.

When we left Gregory Poussier’s sculpture course at his gorgeous studio near Toulouse in March 2024, he gave us a serious amount of homework: do another 30 full size portraits!

Being in the keen learners, good girls, work hard first row in the class kind of students we came home full of optimism that it would be just as Gregory said:

-“Just grab a friend, sit them down and do a super quick portrait, half an hour or so, just to practice. Then just scrap it up and start again with another person and just keep going until you have done 30 portraits”. Easy! Really?

Yes, we set off sculpting a portrait of Dan, Shani’s husband, within a few weeks of coming back home. The idea was that, as Shani knows his features very well, we could concentrate on technique and put into practice all the beautiful teaching we had enjoyed in France. How hard could it be? Well, maybe we’l tell Dan it will take 2 hours, so to give ourselves a little extra time for our first homework. Indeed we did need a little extra time, actually a lot more extra time and a whole 5 months later we presented our two sculptures during the b-side festival on the island.  

Now we are ready for our second piece of homework and creating the basic shape of the head and neck at the studio has already been quite an adventure, full of hesitations, giggles, references to notes and videos taken during the French course and tons of fun of course!

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