Located on Les Issambres seafront, all year round the centre hosts young French and international artists who take inspiration during their stay on the Côte d’Azur.
Created as a private initiative in 2013, this non-profit making organisation attracts contemporary art enthusiasts and collectors from the local area and from abroad.
In an exceptional setting facing the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the Esterel mountains mid-way between nice and Toulon, the centre occupies the 4,000 m² premises of a former shipyard with architectural lines in the spirit of Le Corbusier.
Port Tonic Art Center in the Gulf of Saint Tropez supports contemporary art and promotes creativity, attracting artists from both France and abroad.
Artists’ residence:
Every year. Port Tonic Art Center welcomes 6 to 8 French or international artists who are selected by a small committee made up of the association’s members. The association’s active members can also present potential candidates that they may have spotted at international fairs or collector meetings. To present a project proposal, a candidate has to be the winner of an international competition and their work must already be promoted by an art gallery.
Left to their own inspiration and free to soak up the vibes of the venue and the coastal light, the artists who stay here enjoy a liberating experience of creative self-reflection, unhindered by the constraints of daily life.
Since 2016, Port Tonic Art Center has hosted live-in artists from France, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Korea and America, and is soon to welcome others from Tunisia, Malaysia and Uruguay.
Thanks to the support of the art galleries that support the live-in artists, Port Tonic Art Center provides free accommodation for the selected candidates, as well as help with funding the creations they produce during their stay.
The vast studios and workshops mean that priority can be given to sculptors, especially to those working on monumental pieces.
Port Tonic strives constantly to raise the necessary funding to accommodate their artists.
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The Pays de Fayence (Fayence district) has many great provencal villages. All of them have a particularity such as the view from Mons or the artistic streets of Tourrettes. Do no forget to stop in Seillans that has the label of "Most beautiful village in France"
North of the A8 motorway, you will find the Pays de Fayence. Saint-Cassien lake, a real oasis of freshness in the Var, awaits you! Take a break at the Lake House before visiting the villages of Bagnols-en-Forêt, St-Paul-en-Forêt or Tanneron.
The city of Roquebrune-sur-Argens is the most westerly of the destination. It includes three districts: La Bouverie, at the foot of Gorges du Blavet; The village, overlooked by its magnificent rock, and Les Issambres, with its nautical activities by the sea.
Les Adrets de l'Estérel is a small town located at the extreme southeastern Var. Bordering the Maritimes Alpes, it is composed of large green forests. The town overlooks the bay of Cannes and has an exceptional view on the Lérins Islands and the Corniche de l'Estérel.
Puget sur Argens is a small village located in the middle of many wineries. Its commercial area, near the village, includes many shopping center. North of the village, the Bois du Defens give rise to several walks.
Welcome to Les Issambres, the district of Roquebrune-sur-Argens located on the coast. True paradise with its 8 km of beaches and creeks, this family seaside resort, already frequented at the time by the Romans, is located between the Gulf of Saint-Tropez and Fréjus-Saint Raphaël.
Frejus, located halfway between Cannes and Saint-Tropez, is at the heart of the Côte d'Azur. Based on a sandstone buttress of the Esterel massif, the town dominates the valleys of Argens and Reyran. Frejus has the appearance of a small Provencal town whose new districts extend to the sea.
65km from Nice Côte d'Azur International Airport, Saint-Raphaël is located between Cannes and Saint-Tropez. This seaside resort on the Mediterranean coast is at the bottom of the great Esterel mountains. Saint Raphael, whose city center is by the sea, is divided into different neighborhoods that have all their characteristics and their personalities.
