Rue Loubon is one of those tiny, picturesque streets in Aix that are pure Provence. It’s here that German artist
Miriam Hartmann has chosen to establish her gallery which is just celebrating its first birthday.
Miriam Hartmann has chosen to establish her gallery which is just celebrating its first birthday.
She told me, ‘I opened my own gallery one year ago as a place to show my own paintings as well works from four other artists. I love their work. In the gallery you will find paintings, aquarelles, drawings, and some pottery’.
Miriam ‘s own art is mostly landscape – figurative and more abstract works of Provence and other places she has lived. Interestingly, she collects ochres in Roussillon and makes her own paints, to add authenticity to her work.
A Luberon landscape composed with locally-sourced ochres.
At the moment, there is an exhibition of the work of Swiss artist Jean-Michel 
Bouchardy who has been working on a biblically-inspired Song of Songs theme. His sketches and subsequent oils are on show.
Miriam is also exhibiting pottery from a mother and daughter team, based in the Luberon. Items start at 16 euros.
The gallery, in the ground-floor of a centuries old building, has intimate beamed rooms, drawing chests crammed with watercolours and a spacious atelier in the basement.
All the works are for sale but Miriam is very happy for passers-by to push open her door and enjoy what is hanging on the walls.
Open: Thurs-Fri, 10-12, 14-18; Sat 10-16:00hrs. Mon-Wed by appointment.
Landscape by Miriam Hartmann
Address: Galerie À
9, rue Loubon
13100 Aix en Provence
9, rue Loubon
13100 Aix en Provence
Details: http://miriam-hartmann.com/
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