OCTOBER IMAGINARY
Come and discover art among professional, exceptional and unique artists through a series of workshops inspired by nature. It’s a chance to understand and demystify the complexity of artistic techniques and creative processes. Each meeting is led by an artist who will share her approach and techniques, and offer you the chance to discover and inspire your own.
These workshops are a real opportunity to experiment, learn and, above all, break down the fears surrounding artistic creation. You don’t have to know how to draw, or be patient, or even have “talent” or sophisticated equipment: art is for everyone! All materials are included for each workshop. All you need is a body, a mind… and a little curiosity. À la manière de…” workshops are above all a time for sharing and freedom, where everyone can discover their own way of making art.
Whatever your age, experience or background, we welcome you.
Set of 4 workshops ($180)
Take advantage of the unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the creative world of the workshops, while saving on your entire experience! By choosing all 4 workshops, you give yourself the opportunity to discover the diversity and richness of different artistic practices, while reducing the total cost. It’s an invitation to multiply your discoveries, explore different techniques guided by passionate artists, and let yourself be inspired, each time, by a new vision.
Come share, create and save, whatever your path or experience!
Choice of workshops
Atelier Avant L'Aube-style workshop: forest exploration, connection and free creation.
$50.00 – $65.00
For this workshop, you’re invited to visit Jane Aline’s mini farm, forest and barn workshop. We’ll take a moment in nature with a guided walk in the forest, an exploration of wild plants and a therapeutic moment with farm animals. Then you’d learn to draw them using sketching techniques to achieve a result that’s stylized, simplistic and detailed. This is a free workshop where you’ll have the opportunity to try out different drawing tools; graphite, charcoal, pastel, colored pencils and ink. This is more than just a drawing class. It’s a moment of creation infused with connection to the subject, to be submerged with plants and animals and to know them as well as recreate them.
Important information
Date: October 4, 2025
Start time: 9:30 a.m. (The workshop lasts 2.5 hours)
(Please arrive 15 minutes early)
Address: Ferme Aline et L’Aube (333 Chem. Saint-Louis, Saint-Étienne-de-Beauharnois, QC J0S 1S0)
All materials included (paper, graphite, charcoal, pastel, ink, coloured pencils).
Open to all (regardless of level)
Bilingual workshop (French and English)
For adults only (16 and over)
Price: $65 (Regular rate) or $180 (Promotional rate for all 4 workshops)
A $50 reduced-rate option is available for people with financial difficulties.
Workshops are non-refundable, but you can give up your place by contacting us.
Atelier Avant L'Aube / Jane Aline
Jane Aline is a multidisciplinary artist, both in the kitchen and in the arts. She studied fine arts and the environment, in addition to her many years of training in the kitchen. Hence the creation of her new project, which incorporates all these interests.
She now spends her days in her gardens, her forest, her workshop, her professional kitchen and with her animals.
Website: https://www.alineetlaube.com/
Instagram: @atelieravantlaube
Facebook : Jane Aline
In the style of Art Conjuring: exploring watercolours under a full moon through the theme of the starry sky
$50.00 – $65.00
This workshop for all levels will allow you to explore the artistic medium of watercolour, while letting your creativity and intuition guide you! Under the October full moon (Hunter’s Moon), Catherine will share with you the watercolor techniques linked to her artistic process through the creation of starry skies. It’s an opportunity to discover the medium of watercolor, while exploring Art Conjuring’s artistic approach. Join us for a colorful full moon ritual! You’ll be lucky enough to take home two magnificent watercolors you’ve created as a souvenir of this extraordinary artistic experience.
Important information:
Date: October 7, 2025
Start time: 7:00 pm (The workshop lasts 2.5 hours)
(Please arrive 15 minutes early)
Address: Café Orr (5368 Av. Papineau, Montréal, QC H2H 1W2)
All materials included (paint, palette, brushes and paper)
*** Coffee, beer and pastries available at the Café Orr counter at your own expense ***
Open to all (regardless of level)
Bilingual workshop (French and English)
For adults only (16 and over)
Price: $65 (Regular rate) or $180 (Promotional rate for all 4 workshops)
A $50 reduced-rate option is available for people in financial difficulty
Workshops are non-refundable, but you can give up your place by contacting us.
Art Conjuring / Catherine Laforce
Catherine Laforce is a multidisciplinary artist inspired by nature, feminism and queer joy. After completing a DEC in visual arts, she took several university courses in visual arts, art therapy and art for social change, as part of her BAC in psychology. Her bewitching style translates into the different mediums she practices, be it watercolor, oil paint, pottery and more. Through her company, Art Conjuring, Catherine aims to inspire people to access their personal power and marvel at the magic all around them.
Website: https://etsy.com/ca/shop/artconjuring
Instagram: @art.conjuring
Facebook: art.conjuring
Atelier à la manière de Lumière Noire: Colorful quick sketches of pumpkins and flowers in a still life.
$50.00 – $65.00
In this workshop, you’ll be invited to explore the intuitive use of color through several still lifes composed of pumpkins and bouquets of flowers. In the incredible, inspiring atmosphere of Café Orr, we explored the art of intuition and letting go through a series of quick, guided sketches using various materials and techniques of automatism and letting go. This workshop is an exploration of materials, colors and their intuitive use. Beyond the quest for perfection and concerns about the end result lies your artistic potential! Open to everyone, whatever your experience with art, this workshop aims to overcome the fear of artistic creation. It’s an experience in discovering flexibility, joy and creative freedom through color and mixed media.
Important information:
Date: October 16, 2025
Start time: 7:00 pm (The workshop lasts 2.5 hours)
(Please arrive 15 minutes early)
Address: Café Orr (5368 Av. Papineau, Montréal, QC H2H 1W2)
All materials included (paint, paper, pastels, gouaches, brushes, etc.)
***Coffee, beer and pastries available at the Café Orr counter at no extra charge***.
Open to all (regardless of level)
Bilingual workshop (French and English)
For adults only (16 and over)
Price: $65 (Regular rate) or $180 (Promotional rate for all 4 workshops)
A $50 reduced-rate option is available for people in financial difficulty
Workshops are non-refundable, but you can give up your place by contacting us.
Lumière Noire / Tanya Dolbec
Lumière Noire is a multidisciplinary artist who has been exploring creation in an intuitive and committed way since 2017, the year she founded her company. With a background in contemporary dance and choreographic improvisation, she is now a full-time yoga teacher and artisan.
Practicing various art forms – painting, mixed media, pottery, movement art, photography, floral art – she seeks to transcend the barriers associated with the quest for perfection. A Montreal-based artist, Lumière Noire seeks to connect with the community through art and the inclusivity of the practice of art and yoga.
Website: www.lumierenoire.art
Instagram: @artist.lumierenoire
Workshop in the style of Nature Mutante: Imaginary plants and intuitive exploration of movement and texture in graphite
$50.00 – $65.00
Join us for a graphite drawing workshop on the theme of ”Imaginary plants and intuitive exploration of movement and texture”. Together, we’ll discover the possibilities offered by graphite pencils to create mysterious, dynamic shapes and textures. It’s an opportunity to discover the techniques of artist Nature Mutante (Kali) and explore the medium’s vast potential. By incorporating elements of nature, we’ll awaken our visual memory and imagination. No drawing experience is necessary to take part in this workshop!
Important information:
Very limited space ***
Date: October 26, 2025
Start time: 10:00 am (The workshop lasts 2.5 hours)
(Please arrive 15 minutes early)
Address: Grey Market Montréal (3115 Rue Ontario E Local #3003, Montréal, QC H1W 2M1)
Materials included: paper, graphite pencils, erasers, blotters
What to bring: Protective pouch or envelope to take home your drawing, water bottle or mug.
You can bring your favorite sketchbook if you like!
Open to all (regardless of level)
Bilingual workshop (French and English)
For adults only (16 and over)
Price: $65 (Regular rate) or $180 (Promotional rate for all 4 workshops)
A $50 reduced-rate option is available for people in financial difficulty
Workshops are non-refundable, but you can give up your place by contacting us.
Nature Mutante / Kali Dubuc Brousseau
Nature Mutante is an artist-entrepreneur who devotes herself mainly to traditional drawing and hand-crafted books. Her creations offer a dark, mystical and organic universe, inspired essentially by the impermanence of nature and its various metamorphoses. Her production rhythm is slow and intuitive. She is particularly interested in repetitive, random gestures, and favors the action of creating, that which leads her quietly towards an unknown end result.
Website: www.naturemutante.com
Instagram : @naturemutante
Facebook : Nature Mutante