Sarah, you are a skilled interviewer, and your style is so natural. I, as a viewer, was completely engaged and at ease with the subject and artist. I'm so pleased and excited about this direction into art workshops. As an artist, with some disability, I'd love to see and learn more about your workshop, without needing to be physically present. I hope you are able to share more through your vlogs. Excellent presentation and editing today!!

Just have to mention Sara, that you look absolutely stunning in this video! And love your glasses too! 💙💙💙💙💙💙

Sarah, thank you for this interview. I have never heard of this art form. I did find it absolutely interesting. ❣️

Such a good interview with an engaging artist who opens new possibilities and ideas for creative expression. Thank you

Oh, my goodness what a tour of memories I had with your video - I loved the chandelier over our bed when there & the reason today I love chandeliers, have one in my bathroom & dining room looking for one for my bedroom currently. Costumes & Gondolas ride brings back great joy to watch . Thank you, thank you for sharing , tears of great memories rolling as I watch the places we have been in our 3 days stay through your eyes. Costumers are magical - beautiful seamstress you are Sara - thank you from an armchair senior.

This is something I haven't heard of before. Such a beautiful effect. Thank you for sharing.

This was fascinating! So nice to learn about an art form I have little experience with.

Very interesting video. I dabbled in art in my teens and twenties then life got in the way… you know, work, family, work. I have recently bought a oil paint set and found this type of art exceptional.

You conducted a fantastic interview and looked so beautiful, Sarah! Great backdrop, too. Your workshops will be a success, no doubt! I enjoyed the amazing work of this encaustic artist!

Wow! This process makes things of interest in the foreground pop.

Fabulous thanks so much for organising and sharing. I have never tried this art form but am very inspired.

I am not an artist myself but I truly enjoyed this video. Elske is very talented. Thanks for sharing Sara!

Hello Sarah, I love your hair in this video; the style is really complements your pretty bone structure. Thank you for a fascinating video of Elske's encaustic painting process, tips and unique stunning art. I am off to look at her website. I am sure Elske will have a great response for her teaching classes. It's very exciting to learn of classes and events at your Chateau. Xxx😗

It is great that the first is about encaustic. I am an encaustic artist from Ontario. One of my pieces will be showing in Venice for the 2022 Biennale. Clear encaustic has been also used by ancient carvers to protect the marble sculptures. It definitely is a very old form of art that a lot of people are not familiar with.

Another talented Canadian 😊

Another Canadian Sarah....well done.......would love to see more of Elsie ‘s work...it is very different and interesting.........Donna in Toronto

Totally fascinating 🤩thanks Sarah

Super cool! Loved her work!

Thanks Sarah this was something new and super interesting... Keep it coming!!

Morning Sara, you are looking so nice, contented and happy. Photography is an ancient art, and it changes every so often, papers, inks, cameras with various lenses, depending what you wish to do with it. What is captured on camera, only memories. So many things are taken for granted, it is only when in depth we go to the start of development that we realise how much work is involved. Looking forward to the next video, blessings for those whom wish to enrol, they are going to learn stacks in the photography field. Black and White still give a beautiful outline. Kind regards.

Sooooo excited for you guys!! Can't wait to see how this one goes and what you do in the future!!

So beautiful! I'm really excited about the direction you are going!!

Loved listening to Elske and he was able to explain so very much and did it well. Sarah, you did such a nice job and you listened and did not interrupt. Some interviewers on TV etc do that and the other person never get to talk much about what they came on to explain.

Wow, this was so interesting. Looking forward to more of your videos. The talent and patience is amazing to watch. Great interviewing skills.

Very interesting. I hadn't heard of this before. Thank you for sharing.

Sarah how interesting I was riveted memories of a young art student just transfixed I’ve never seen such art the artist so talented look forward to seeing more Thankyou for sharing Sarah you have an eye for the unique side of art Abiento my love😍😍❤️❤️👌👌💖

Brilliant. Learned something new. Looked at your website for the information, and I'm really impressed by what you're offering. Perfect blend of workshop, and vacation in historic France. I wish you the best of luck!

Absolutely first rate interview and such an interesting artist. You're going to do very well if this is the level of teaching Sarah. ❤

I had never heard of encaustic art before! Very interesting! My only artistic talent is enjoying the work of others, but I do like to think that I do that fairly well. LOL! This is exactly one of the things that I hoped for from your channel: learning about new things! As others have said, you did a good job of interviewing MS de Groot. You enabled her to tell her story, not try to tell it for her (as so many do).

Never heard of encaustic art very interesting, thanks for sharing an unusual form of art 😊.

Hi Elske!! I enjoyed learning about Elske's art! Love from Vermont

That was very interesting. Her work is beautiful! Great interview!

Very fun and inspirational. Blessings.

AMAZING!!

I've never heard of encaustic art! It was really interesting!

I loved this , Sarah! I had never heard of this process before. Wish I had room for a designated art space in my retirement home, but now I am motivated to once again check out art experiences in my area (and hope Covid doesn’t interfere)! Thank you - I look forward to learning more from your vlogs!

I live in Alliston Ontario, and the degroot is known in Alliston.. hugs

Congratulations! Great video and I learnt something new, love that ! xo

Great and interesting video.

Most interesting.

Very intriguing! Will check it out.

Loved this video Sarah! Your questions were great. Elsie is very talented and explained the method well. Good luck with your workshop! I’m sure it will be a huge success. I look forward to seeing more about the workshop! Just a suggestion. The overall lighting and the background for shots of you as interviewer could be improved. Perhaps Steve could create a Manor and Maker logo for the back wall and then you could have the current interview/workshop title & date etc added below it which could be lit as background. It would create more visual interest.

So beautifull

Very interesting! Thank you!

Very interesting!

Wonderful interview, love making encaustic, such a wide range within the media.

What a great interview - you were good at drawing out her inspirations, etc, not just her background and what she taught.

Great interview Sara 💚

Hello, her parents must have been exceptionally supportive, even her name Elske means “Love” in Norwegian!

The new Oprah for makers. Great interview Sarah!

I use photography to design my paintings but a niece wants a mix media piece or textiles piece from me, so I hope this inspires me.😁❤🌺🌹

That was a very good interview Sarah also was very interesting as well

That was a really good video Sarah! Very professional interview, but just so interesting! I love encaustic, dabbled with it briefly at Art School, but didn't follow it up. Those works that Elske showed are amazing! Can't wait for the workshops!

I wanted to see more of her work

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Just a thought: you could do a 3 camera coverage and lavalieres (with windsocks if outdoors) of the workshops, edit with necessary voice overs and offer them (after the in person workshop) online for a fee (fee split between you and the invited artist). These would be introductions to the workshops(s) for those who registered. Then, you would do a live session of the actual workshop so they could follow along. You could coordinate on materials lists for the workshops emailed to the cohort ahead of time, so people can prepare their materials, etc. ahead of time and then create on the fly during the online (zoom?) workshop. Win-win for you, the artist and those individuals who love what you do, but for logistical reasons can not travel to France to do the in-person workshop! For those www participants, you could then offer a supplemental live Q and A for questions that arise. This may not work for every workshop, but perhaps a lot of them going forward. It would create a much wider audience. The people who attended the original workshop in person would sign waivers to be filmed, and they may enjoy being the originals immortalized on KZfaq for future sessions. You could build up an archive and run multiple workshops throughout the year, but offer those periodically into the future since you would be well prepared as would the repeatedly (online) visiting artists....(.yeah, I am an artist (heheheh) and developed online learning for my faculty at ECU Vancouver. there is SO much potential for you to expand your audience and patrons this way. Good luck!❤️ (you can google performance waivers to download one for your in person participants and those not wanting to be on camera can opt out. you can include this in your registration.) Bon chance!❤️

I'd love to come for a workshop.

Thank you for this interesting video on what is a totally new art form to me. Unfortunately, I struggle to respond to it as instinctively as to other far less convoluted and technical forms of art. I prefer the spontaneity and instant creativity of an artist just talking to you with simple painting and drawing tools, from the traditional to the new.

Does she do any workshops in the U.S.? Love her work.

I created costumes for theatre and dance

Elske means love in Danish.

Could the sound be better or is it me/my unit?

Can she show samples of her art?

Another Canadian. HURRAY!!!!!

Sarah -- I'm embarrassed to admit it but I have to say it -- I didn't totally understand the presentation. I was able to figure it out but ... first, I would have liked to see more of Elske's work early on so I'd kind of know where we were headed. I'm an artist and I know something about encaustic yet I didn't quite understand this 3-d concept until after she started doing it at the end -- scraping out various levels -- right at the very end. She has a very particular way of using the medium and that's great but there was something missing in the explanation. I went online to find examples of her work -- I think it must be hard to see the encaustic qualities on this digital screen. Despite that I enjoyed hearing the story of her journey and how confidently she follows her intuition, making changes in direction and not sticking to definitions, just doing the work. This isn't meant to be negative -- each artist you highlight will be different and we can go with the flow. I love Manor and Maker too.

,going to offer some criticism here, don't hate me! I found there was not enough hands-on content, a little too much intro and talking ... just my 2 cents.

Loved hearing about Elska work have forwarded the video on to a few people I know that would be interested like the last comment a little bit more about her art would have been helpful her instagram account was not really helpful must try and get to her account and see what that shows again wonderful though. Thanks for showing

Most interesting.