ARTIST'S RETREAT WEEK:
We will open for the 2010 season with this annual retreat for artists.
This year we are happy to welcome David Beynon Pena as our artist in
residence. David has taught both landscape and figure painting workshops
at Rock Gardens in previous summers. Mr. Pena is currently on the faculty
of the NJ Center for Visual Arts and has taught at the Art Student's
League, the National Academy of Design, the Montclair Museum and the
School of Visual Arts. This year he will not be teaching as this is
a retreat week, but he will be available for assistance in choosing
where and what to paint, as well as leading several afternoon or evening
group critiques. Participants work on their own and will have full use
of the studio building to work inside, as well as the use of the grounds
at Rock Gardens. (We ask that artists do not use oil paints inside the
cottages.) So come alone, with a friend or group of friends, and enjoy
the beautiful surroundings while you give yourself the space and time
to do something you love.
JUNE 13 - 18• Artist's Retreat Week.
FEE: Single @ $1125
FEE: Sharing @ $885
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us at (207) 389-1339
CARL
SCHMALZ will continue the instructional series this summer
with his "Watercolor Painting Workshop" featuring
daily demonstrations and critiques. Professor Schmalz studied with and
taught watercolor for Eliot O'Hara. He completed his Ph.D. in Art History
while teaching and administering the Museum at Bowdoin College. From
1962 until 1995 he taught at Amherst College, and from 1969 to 1989
he ran his own summer workshops in Kennebunkport, Maine. He has also
taught numerous workshops in the U.S., Canada and Bermuda. Currently
he teaches at the Heartwood College of Art in Kennebunk, Maine. A member
of the Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society, he has exhibited and lectured
widely, and has served as entry juror and prize judge over much of the
U.S. His paintings and prints are held in hundreds of private and public
collections. His work has received many prizes and has been featured
in American Artist, Splash, and other books and publications.
The author of Watercolor Lessons from Eliot O'Hara and Finding
and Improving Your Painting Style, he is represented by galleries
in Kennebunkport, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts.
JUNE 20 - 25 • Watercolor Painting Workshop with Carl
Schmalz
FEE: Single @ $1400
FEE: Sharing @ $1175
FEE: Non-participant @ $885
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BJÖRN
RUNQUIST will teach a weekend workshop "Painting Plein-Air:
In and Out of the Studio." The workshop will be an introduction
to the basics and will focus on the dynamics of building a painting,
both as a plein-air exercise and as a studio painting. Particular emphasis
will be on capturing light and its use as a compositional element. Björn
Runquist was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He grew up outside of New York
City and spent his high school years in France before returning to the
U.S. for college. Upon completion of college he moved to London where
he received a Masters' degree in Romance languages and literature from
Kings College. For the last 25 years he has made his home in Connecticut
and Clark Island, Maine. He has painted all his life in a wide variety
of mediums and began showing in galleries in the early 80's. Since then
he has shown widely in galleries on the East Coast, including the Caldbeck
in Rockland, Maine; Bachelier-Cardonsky in Kent, Connecticut; the Connecticut
Biennial at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich; the Farnsworth Museum in
Rockland; and the Allan Stone Gallery in New York. He currently has
several large paintings on loan to the U.S. State Department in their
Art in Embassies Program. He is currently represented by the Masters
Gallery in Camden, Maine; Bachelier-Cardonsky in Kent, Ct.; and Horton-Hayes
in Charleston, SC. His work can also be seen on his website at:
www.bjornrunquist.com.
JUNE 25 - 27 • Painting Plein-Air with Björn Runquist
FEE: Single @ $555
FEE: Sharing @ $465
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KAREN
O'NEIL: Instructor
Assistant Instructor: PETER CLAPPER
KAREN O'NEIL has been instructing painting and drawing
courses and workshops throughout the Northeast for over a decade, and
is currently an instructor of painting at the Art Students League of
New York Vytlacil campus. A graduate of Massachusetts College of Art,
Ms. O'Neil studied in Provincetown with Henry Hensche and also at the
University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She has been the recipient of
regional fellowships, and has been artist-in-residence at the Millay
colony. Ms. O'Neil's award-winning work is included in numerous corporate
and private collections. She is represented by galleries in New York,
Indiana and Florida. Working directly from the landscape, participants
in the "Direct, Fresh Painting Workshop" will have
the opportunity to study the unique light of Casco Bay. The workshop
will focus on the study of color-the atmospheric effects of light on
color at different times of day. Simplifying your subject matter, warm
and cool relationships, mixing neutral and gray colors are some of the
basic painting issues this workshop will cover. Emphasis will be placed
on sharpening individual painters seeing and drawing skills. Assisting
students with fundamental drawing and observational skills will be Art
Students League instructor Peter Clapper. (www.peterclapperpainting.com
) Peter will lead an informal powerpoint presentation and discussion
on contemporary landscape painting, Wednesday evening. The workshop
will be open to all mediums. Demonstrations will be conducted in oil
paint. All skill levels are welcome.
www.karenoneilpaintings.us.vu
JUNE 27 - JULY 2 • Direct, Fresh Painting with Karen
O'Neil
FEE: Single @ $1400
FEE: Sharing @ $1175
FEE: Non-participant @ $885
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This July we are very pleased to welcome two new instructors: David
Dewey and Frank Webb.
DAVID
DEWEY has a long teaching career. He has taught at Parson’s
School of Design in New York City from 1974-1997, the National Academy
School of Fine Arts, and most recently at the Lyme Academy College of
Fine Arts. His work is in many major museums as well as public and
private collections. He currently exhibits his work at the Bernaducci-Meisel
Gallery in New York City and the Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland, Maine.
His book “The Watercolor Book” was published by Watson-Guptill in 1995
and offers a comprehensive look at the medium of watercolor. His workshop
LANDSCAPE WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP will take place on location
beginning with a lecture and demonstration, and concluding with an encouraging
review that focuses on: the watercolor medium and materials, on-location
painting methods and skills, composition and COLOR. The expressive
power of COLOR is the key focus of all of David’s lectures and absorbing
watercolor demonstrations and the primary reason for the great popularity
of all of his workshops.
http://www.daviddeweywatercolors.com
JULY 4 - 9 • Landscape
Watercolor Workshop with David Dewey
FEE: Single @ $1400
FEE: Sharing @ $1175
FEE: Non-participant @ $885
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FRANK
WEBB, A.W.S. (DF) N.W.S. will be teaching his workshop WATERCOLOR,
ESTHETICS AND ENERGIES. Mr. Webb is a graduate of the Art
Institute of Pittsburgh. He also studied at the Fleisher Art Memorial
and with painter Edgar Whitney. Sixty years as a professional artist
back up his current activities in painting, lecturing, jurying and writing.
He has conducted workshops globally and in 50 states. In 2006 he was
included in " 20 Great Watercolor Teachers" by the American Artist Magazine
"Watercolor". He is the author of three books and 5 DVD's. His work
has appeared in numerous museums and galleries throughout the country
and has received awards such as the American Watercolor Society's Bronze
Medal of Honor among others. His workshop is open to artists of all
levels of ability save rank beginners. The single, most important focus
will be pictorial design, which includes planning, color, tonal values,
expression and visual theme. Demonstrations, personal instruction and
objective criticism will sharpen participants’ critical powers. Mr.
Webb will have a one to one session with each participant each day.
"Along with Science, Theology and Philosophy, Art is one of the four
grand inquiries. Those bound together by art form some of life's most
significant associations. Expect to meet new friends. When returning
from the workshop to the solitude of our own studios we will be recharged
by that temporary collaboration with gallant peers."
http://www.artshow.com/webb/index.html
JULY 11 - 16 • Watercolor, Esthetics
and Energies with Frank Web
FEE: Single @ $1400
FEE: Sharing @ $1175
FEE: Non-participant @ $885
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We will continue
our summer series with DAVID KAPP's new workshop "Painting
and Drawing the Contemporary Landscape." David Kapp was born
in New York City in 1953. He received his BFA from Windham College in
Vermont and his MFA from Queens College in New York. His work can be
found in public and private collections throughout the US including
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of the City, New
York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Portland Art Museum, Portland,
Oregon and the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine to name
a few. He has had solo exhibitions at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New
York City, the Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica, California, and
the Galerie Michel Vidal in Paris, France, most recently. He has taught
at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont; Brandeis University;
Fordham University and Haverford College. He has received awards from
the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Rosenthal Foundation and
the CAPS Fellowship in Painting. His work has been written about in
publications such as The New York Times, The New York Observer,
Art News and Art in America. David divides his time between
New York City and Friendship, Maine.
This workshop will begin Saturday evening with a slide talk and be
comprised of 2 days of drawing (outside) and 2 days of painting (outside)
with one optional evening session drawing and painting nocturnes in
downtown Bath , Maine. We will explore unconventional aspects of the
contemporary landscape with focus on pictorial movement through space
and the use of light.
www.davidkapp.com
** Please note this workshop will run from Saturday evening through
Thursday morning to accommodate the Labor Day weekend.
AUGUST 28 - SEPT. 2 • Painting Outdoors with David Kapp
FEE: Single @ $1400
FEE: Sharing @ $1175
FEE: Non-participant @ $885
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LOIS
DODD returns this September to teach her "Outdoor Painting
Workshop." Ms. Dodd was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1927.
She attended The Cooper Union in New York from 1945 to 1948. In 1952
she was one of five artists to establish the cooperative Tanager Gallery.
She exhibited there until 1962. It was also in the 1950s that Ms. Dodd
began spending summers in Maine. From 1971 to 1992 Ms. Dodd taught at
Brooklyn College, and has, since 1980, served on the Board of Governors
of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has instructed
at the Vermont Studio School. She is an elected member of the American
Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and of the National Academy
of Design. Currently the Alexandre Gallery in Manhattan represents Ms.
Dodd. Her work is also shown in Maine at the Caldbeck Gallery in Rockland
and can be found in collections at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland;
Bowdoin College Museum, Brunswick; Colby College, Waterville; the Ogunquit
Museum of American Art; and at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland.
She resides in New York City. Ms. Dodd workshop will be primarily in
oil, however students are welcome to work in other mediums if they prefer.
Ms. Dodd will help students set up to paint, and will be available throughout
the day, mingling with students as they work on the grounds or in the
studio building. She will not be giving demonstrations. There will be
group critiques at the end of the day.
SEPT. 12 - 17 • Outdoor Painting with Lois Dodd
FEE: Single @ $1400
FEE: Sharing @ $1175
FEE: Non-participant @ $885
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