Calling All Creatives!
As part of our Co Living for Creatives Residency programme we are super excited to welcome back for his third year, Rob Lowe AKA Supermudane!
Rob is our guest artist for our three week long April Creative Residency! With a background in graphic design, and more than 25 years experience working across various aspects of the creative world, Rob approaches projects with a sense of humour and a will to make everything he produces (no matter how small) have a bespoke and generous character. He is interested in deeply personal work but with a wide appeal, rooted in the universality of the human condition. He has exhibited and has been published worldwide, including several solo shows and often works with charities. He has been commissioned for many large scale public works which can be seen across the UK.
This is your chance to recharge your creative batteries, spend time on a particular project, explore working in different mediums and materials alongside the super friendly and very talented artist, writer, graphic illustrator, and author of Lost Ordinary Magic.
Rob enjoys working with geometric shapes, line, colour, pattern and words to create playful, multi-layered and philosophical work. As part of the April Residency, Rob will be giving a talk and facilitating two workshops encouraging us to interact playfully and bring joy into our creative practise! Rob is also a keen cold water swimmer and always up for an early morning dip, however cold!
This will be a very collaborative 3 weeks experience with the goal of a group show at the end!
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We have many spaces to create and make work, large shared kitchen lots of communal spaces, inside and outdoors in which to work. We have an extensive library of inspirational books, a ceramic studio, and a printing press and The Flour Store.
Early booking essential as limited spaces. All rooms are listed as single occupancy. If you wish to come with a partner please let us know when you book. The cost for second person sharing a room is discounted by 30%
Accommodation
To make the most of your residency we highly recommend that you attend for the full 3 week stay. 2 week stay options are available for those that are unable to attend for the full 3 week duration..
Your 3 week stay will cost between 1200€ - 1350€, depending on room option - choose from the rooms listed below
A 2 week stay will cost between 1050€ - 1180€, depending on room option - choose from the list of rooms below.
Let us know if you are a couple and required shared occupancy (the partner rate is 30% less than the single occupancy rate)
*Note food is not included, apart from the once a week feast cooked by Nathalie cooking is usually shared amongst the residency participants. Nathalie will drive you to the supermarket for a big shop once a week. There is also a smaller local supermarket, boulangerie, lunch time restaurant and a pizza restaurant in the local village, a 10 minute walk from the Mill. There are buses and trains into Millau, the nearest Market Town, several times a day.
Materials and kiln firing costs are additional.
Room Options:
The Millers Nook
Single Occupancy Room 1200€ for your 3 weeks stay (1050€ for a 2 week stay)
Second floor single bedroom. The Miller’s Nook shares a bathroom and WC with the Mezzanine Nook.
The Mezzanine Nook
Single Occupancy Room 1200€ for your 3 weeks stay (1050€ for a 2 week stay)
Second floor room. The Mezzanine Nook shares a bathroom and WC with the Miller’s Nook.
Hill View Room
Single Occupancy 1350€ for your 3 week stay ( 1180€ for a 2 week stay)
First floor room with a double bed and an adjacent shower-room and WC. Note - shower may be shared with guests from Garden View Room on the ground floor - however they have their own WC.
Riverside View Room
Single Occupancy 1350€ for your 3 week stay (1180€ for a 2 week stay)
First floor double room with adjacent shower room & WC
Ground Floor Garden Room
Single Occupancy Room 1200€ for your 3 weeks stay (1050€ for a 2 week stay)
Layout: 1 x double bed, desk, chair and sofa and the best view of the river!
The Artists Loft - our largest 'bedroom' space.
Single Occupancy 1350€ for your 3 week stay ( 1180€ for a 2 week stay)
The Artists Loft is our largest 'bedroom' space. Situated on the 4th Floor, under the roof eves, 100sq metres shared only with some rather interesting milling components/ furniture at one end of the space, with windows along 2 elevations. Minimally furnished with a vintage double sleigh bed, a chest of drawers, chaise lounge, small writing desk and a comfy reading chair. There are bedside lights, a central ceiling light, and 2 double plug sockets and rugs around the bed on the original old wooden floor. There is an eco toilet in the far corner, screened behind a curtain, you will share a modern shower room on the floor below with 2 other guests. There is no heating in the The Artist’s Loft, other than a hot water bottle (optional electric blanket) and a sumptuous feather duvet. The space is vast, light and airy, truly magical and liberating, there are 6 windows, 3 along the west elevation and 3 on the east elevation… when it’s windy you will hear it, when it’s rainy, you will also hear it! You will feel definitely feel connected to the elements! If you want a larger private space to make your art (only suitable for painting, drawing, collage etc - not clay or any wet work), we have easel or trestle table options. This may well be the dreamiest space you have ever worked in!
What’s Not Included:
Your travel to and from The Mill
Your travel / holiday insurance is not included. Please ensure you take out your own insurance policy
Your Food & drink is not included - except for the welcome meal & the weekly feast cooked by Nathalie
Your materials required for art works are not included.
*note you can order what you need in advance to be delivered to The Mill if you want to
There are additional costs fro electric kiln firing/ clay/ glazes/ gas for the raku kiln
Airport Transfers - We do offer a pick service from Beziers or Montpellier or Rodez at 80 Euro per person
How To Get Here
Our Address is:
Le Moulin, ZA Vergonhac, 7 Route de Linas, Saint Georges de Luzençon, 12100, Aveyron, France
Contact Details:
Email: nathalie@themillfrance.com
UK Mobile: +44 (0)775 631 5823 (WhatsApp)
FR Mobile: +33 (0)6 30 04 62 87
Our nearest town is Millau - A 10 minute drive away.
There are trains and buses from Rodez, Montpellier and Beziers.
If you are driving from the UK please check the map, we are a long way down! We advise you break your journey en route if coming via Dover/ Calais.
There is the option of an overnight ferry from Portsmouth to St.Malo which makes the drive in France approx 6 hrs from St.Malo to The Mill France.
We encourage car sharing with other guests on retreats & residencies and are happy to connect guests via WhatsApp to make this possible.
The operator Flixbus offers a night bus from Paris to MIllau
Our nearest airports are Rodez, Montpellier and Beziers.
If you are coming from the USA it is possible to fly into Barcelona & from there get a train to Beziers where you can either join the airport pick up at 80 euro per person or get the connecting train from Beziers to our village where we will meet you. ( We are closer to Barcelona than we are to Paris and flights into Barcelona from USA are often cheaper than flights to Paris)
We offer an airport pick from Beziers or Montpellier or Rodez at 80 Euro per person
Pick up from Millau or Saint Georges train/ bus station is free of charge
T&Cs:
We require payment in full to secure your booking (if you need to split your payment and pay in 2 parts let us know).
100% refundable minus 50€ admin fee: 90+ days before arrival date
75% refundable: 89 - 60 days prior to arrival date
50% refundable: 59 - 31 days prior to arrival date
0% refundable: 30 - 0 days days prior to arrival date. Note: If we are able to fill your spot at short notice you will be fully refunded minus 150€ admin fee). You may also transfer your place to a friend/ family member