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Célia MATHELIN

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Photo by Célia MATHELIN on May 05, 2026.

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Posted On: May 6th 2026, 06:55 am

Tour du Pays Voironnais 🚴‍♀️

3 étapes en 2 jours ✔️
1ère étape : 🏆 + maillot de leader 🟠
2ème étape : 🥉
3ème étape : 🥉
Classement général : 🥈

Merci @giant_city_thizy_les_bourgs 💙
@vcroannais_ ⚪️🔴

Comments (4)

6 months ago

nikki.dwl

La star Cécé 😍😍🩷

6 months ago

roro_velo

Bravo cécé 🚀🫶

for harper’s bazaar 2026 november issue.

#赵露思 #zhaolusi #จ้าวลู่ซือ #조로사

My interest in Josefa de Óbidos, a Spanish-Portuguese 17th century painter, was the jumping-off point for my collaboration with @chelseafussflowers in her recent floral retreat in Lisbon (the retreat was called “Art, Flowers, & Gardens of Lisbon”, a title I find very evocative!).

Chelsea always wants her guests to be immersed in Portuguese culture and heritage and she and I worked together to translate Josefa’s legacy into different floral experiences for her guests.

On my first morning of teaching we headed out to Évora to see a few of Josefa’s paintings at the @museunfreimanueldocenaculo. We chose Évora because Lisbon’s old masters museum, the @mnaa_lisboa, is undergoing renovations and has been closed for a year, and Évora is both a short drive from Lisbon and an amazing city in its own right.

I started by giving them a little talk about Josefa’s background and career and then I went on explaining each of the paintings on display. We talked about the omnipresence of religion in Baroque society, the growing importance of sugar, the seasonality of sweets and the symbolism of flowers. As in 17th century poetry, paintings were filled with metaphors and fauna and flora were often associated with Christian meaning. We identified each flower and talked about what it could have meant to 17th century viewers.

In order to make this session a bit more interactive and three-dimensional, I brought along some of my paper flowers, specifically the ones I made following Josefa’s very rigorous and accurate depictions. Most of them are native to Portugal, which makes it even more interesting in terms of general knowledge and conservation.

After the visit to the museum we went to @ximenamaier’s home, where we were treated to an excellent lunch, animated conversation, a talk on the history of tiles and a tile painting workshop.

I’ve written more about the whole experience on my substack, the link is in my bio.

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Célia MATHELIN

@celia_mathelin13

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