The place is well worth it. A bucolic corner reached by a train that takes its time, winding through expanses of smooth green before stopping at a station just outside Clermont-Ferrand.
The artists are waiting to take me to their studio.
It's the hottest day of summer. The garden, dotted with works of art by an artist friend of the family, is a haven of freshness and poetry. The journey is complete.
The weightlessness, light and delicacy that emanate from the work of Atelier Horizon Verre are projected onto their workshop.
Atelier Horizon Verre is four hands, two worlds, a multitude of skills and emotions, it is Mélanie and Justin who shape the light, each in their own way.
The Atelier is large and composed of two separate spaces. One dedicated to firing and polishing, the other to storage and special handling. This duality echoes that of the artistic tandem.
If they work together on common creations, the Atelier Horizon Verre is two creative researches, in unison or in dialogue, which constantly stretch their possibilities, towards a new perspective, extensible, always new, always more poetic.
Born from the creative elective affinities of Mélanie Gracia & Justin Hemery for a common medium of expression, the Atelier Horizon Verre traces the correspondence of their two practices and universes.
Mélanie likes to explore varied subjects with a constant search for the association of figurative or abstract elements, with in the background the permanent establishment of a space for dialogue with those who will look at her works and who remain the central actors of her work.
Justin draws his inspiration from nature and the multitude of phenomena that express it, whether mineral, meteorological, geological, telluric or celestial. The emotion that stems from its manifestations and the humility they induce are a source of infinite research for him. He develops a search for multiple emotions and an equally prolific creativity.
The result of these creative fields with panoramic opening of emotions is the Atelier Horizon Verre.
At the end of the day, I regretfully leave this bucolic bubble nourished by Art where time seems suspended, my senses filled with wonders to be recounted for a while.
A luminous and sensitive work to discover in more detail here
