Ateljee
Continuing the family’s passion for art, the Ateljee is an exciting creative space for guests to engage with artworks, artists and makers.
In a world increasingly shaped by the digital and abstract, When Surfaces Speak is an invitation to come closer and to perceive with more than the eye.
Running from 12 July to 5 October 2025, this exhibition is a collaboration of artists who honour the materials with which they are surrounded. More than a celebration of texture as a surface quality, the exhibition embraces texture for elements of knowledge, understanding and remembering. It is inquisitive and explores an organic connection to the everyday, the dream state and the deeply felt, offering both fragility and resilience.
Artists express these qualities in felt, fibre, clay, paper, plant, paint and with slow processes of weaving, layering, imprinting, and stitching. In this artistic process, materials are not passive carriers of form, but active agents, speaking of time, place, decay, and transformation, revealing a quiet persistence in the process of making such as through the rhythm of a needle or the looping repetition of crocheting and weaving.
When Surfaces Speak invites us to pause, to rediscover the quiet intimacy of making and perceiving and to feel - literally and figuratively.
The exhibition also includes a series of engaging workshops, and visitors can purchase products crafted by the featured artists at the La Motte Farm Shop.
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Sip and Paint
Join us in the La Motte Ateljee to paint (and share!) something that brings you joy.
Brush up on your creativity and create a painting at your leisure over a glass of wine in the new Ateljee Workspace.
You can take your completed artwork home, or place it back onto the wall to create a collective painting (we will return it to you by courier after the exhibition).
Cost: R450 including a glass of wine or a non-alcoholic drink from the menu.
Available from Wednesdays to Sundays. Book a day on which you would like to join us. The first session starts at 10:00 and you can join us any time until 15:00.
Please note that for children to participate, they should be older than 6 years and accompanied by an adult.
Opening Hours
Wednesday to Sunday, 09:00 – 17:00.
Closed on Christian religious holidays.
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