Nature of Making, Gardening around a Torrent. A Workshop by Terhi Tolvanen at Aillon-le-vieux 2026

Nature can be the conceptual approach but also a great source of ´making´ material. As well as it is pieces of wood, stones, flowers or sand, it is also shapes, proportions, rhythms of mathematic sequences and colour nuances. Terhi Tolvanen proposes to take an early morning walk to start the working days. Walking and observation are pleasant tools. Once back to the atelier, the work will be about making and transforming the found material in actual materialized ideas.

Detailed program on the website

Costs: 560 € incl. Taxes and all general materials (tools, copper). Accommodation is not included. You can find some suggestions for accommodation here
When: 11th July 2025 at 9h30 to 14th July at 6 p.m.
Application: by a down payment of half the course fee, here or send an e-mail to brune.boyer@mailo.eu
Participants: 6 max.
Languages: French, English, Spanish.


The Teacher:
Terhi Tolvanen makes sculptural jewellery where she continuously reinvents nature. Her imaginary wearable trees and plants connect natural and man-made, questioning at the same time the role of control and freedom in this dialogue.
Terhi was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1968 and lives and works today since more than ten years in France. After graduating as silversmith in 1993 from the Design Institute in Lahti, FI she continued her education at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, NL. In 1997 she was invited to study at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL for her Master of Arts degree, which she obtained in 1999. Right after her graduation Terhi started exhibiting her work in many solo- and group exhibitions internationally.
Her jewellery is in many important collections around the world such as the Schmuck Museum in Pforzheim, DE, Victoria&Albert Museum in London, UK, Coda Museum in Apeldoorn, NL. The latest acquisitions are made by the Musée Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris, FR and MAD New York, gift Porter Price Collection, USA.Since 2017 Terhi is also teaching in ENSAD, the École National Supérieur d’Art et Design in Limoges in France.