Site ostréicole de la Baudissière

Along the oyster route, the Port de La Baudissière site will delight artists at heart. Its picturesque charm is due to the colorful little huts lining the channels. Used for the traditional oyster-farming activity, they were long abandoned as the industry modernized. To preserve a testimony to the history of the site, the huts have been the subject of a rehabilitation project, and now form an unusual ensemble of shimmering, vibrant colors in the middle of nature. Today, they are the refuge of local artists, who have made them their studios. Open to the public, a stroll through the cabanes d'artistes de la Baudissière guarantees a dreamlike stroll from one universe to another: paintings, lamps, textile creations, hats, mosaics, crockery, jewelry, sculpture... Atypical, authentic, photogenic, they offer a little show to the curious who discover them, and allow a different apprehension of a whole part of the local traditional history.



The "cabaneux" of La Baudissière: Cabane n°1: Les parfums d'Oléron: Handcrafted home fragrances made from natural products. Sprays, diffusers, candles... among other original objects to scent. Admission is free, and Nathaly welcomes you every day from April to September and during the All Saints' Day vacations. Open all year round on a click-and-collect basis. Cabane N°2 : Camille DanDoNo : exhibition of paintings and objects.



Cabane N°3: Cabane temporaire: various exhibitions. To enable artists to exhibit their work temporarily, certain cabins have been converted into exhibition spaces. They can be rented out (see Town Hall).



Cabane N°5 : L'armoire à Histoires offers unique and original creations for young and old, clothing, fashion and decorative accessories, made-to-measure... Cabane N°6 : La Savonnière d'Oléron Carole Coupey, artisan soap-maker, offers a range of cold-saponified superfatted soaps, solid shampoos and household products made on the island of Oléron.



Cabane N°6bis : Esther Debouvry presents her felt hats and other creations in the same material, clothing, ethnic jewelry. Cabane N°7 : Bernard'O L'Artiste : mosaic Cabane N°8 : Custom saddlery, leather goods and accessories Cabane N°8bis : Temporary cabane : various exhibitions.



Hut N°9: Temporary hut: various exhibitions.



Hut N°10: Newsprint basketry.



Cabane N°12 : Association Oléronaise " Lézards au bord de l'O " : recycled creations, textile accessories, photographs of the Foreshore, creations by Toudoux de la mer, unusual jewelry, illustration on various media, fusing creations, vegetable-tanned leather goods... Cabane N°13 : Sophie Brassens, Pirouette et cacahuète, creation of costume jewelry/ arachnid creations.