Musician Esther Lamneck (clarinet and tárogató) and Composer Mara Helmuth enjoyed a collaborative residency at Wassard Elea in the Spring of 2025, in the two apartments The Philosopher and The Poet. Here they worked on a new music project. One work resulting from this residency was Wind Blown Rain for computer and tárogató. The videoContinue reading “Featured guests: Esther Lamneck and Mara Helmuth”
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Featured Guest: Owen Gray, visual artist
My paintings are a slow journey into the what’s known yet unclear in our inner worlds. Just like a dream, all the elements can never fully be realized, yet with time, new discoveries are illuminated.
Owen Gray
Featured guest: Jerilyn Jurinek, visual artist
“A village is a work of survival, of crumbling and repaired corridors, curling up hills for protection, for worship, community, for beauty and time to remember its story. Places built for protection are beautiful. Beauty is a kind of camouflage.” Jerilyn Jurinek What, René, did I get out of staying in Wassard Elea’s apartment inContinue reading “Featured guest: Jerilyn Jurinek, visual artist”
Spring repairs!
We are carrying out repairs and upgrades on the apartments this week.
Featured Guest: Jaana Lönnroos, visual artist
Visual artist Jaana Lönnroos was resident at Wassard Elea during 2022, and we are delighted to share some images of work she produced while there. These artworks were part of an exhibition at Galeria Uusikuva, Kotka, Finland.
Featured guest: Anna Jacobina Jacobsen, illustrator
We were delighted to host Anna Jacobina Jacobsen from Denmark for the month of September, 2022. She came to Ascea to work on ideas for a new picture book.
New photos of 18A ‘The Philosopher’ added
We’ve added more photos of our artist, scholar and creative retreat spaces in Ascea, south Italy. Check the website to see them.
New photos of 18B ‘The Poet’ added
We’ve added new photos of our apartment 18B ‘The Poet’.
Gardening leave
Gardening, lemons, weed-stop in an artist retreat in south Italy.
Setting off
We’ve decided to start a blog so that readers can see what we’re doing to improve the apartments and the retreat in general. We’ll also include practical tips for visiting and living in the Cilento, restoring and maintaining properties here, and other topics that could be useful to anyone who wants to visit or evenContinue reading “Setting off”