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ARTIST'S RETREAT WEEK: We will open for the 2008 season with this annual retreat for artists who prefer to paint without instruction. This week is a very good deal, as we offer the same quality of service, meals, and accommodations as we do in our other workshops, at a very reduced rate. Participants will have full use of the studio building to work inside, and meet with other artists if they choose to, as well as the use of the grounds at Rock Gardens. 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 15 - 20 •
Artist's Retreat Week.
Click Here to make reservations or call us at (207) 389-1339
JUNE 22 - 27 •
Watercolor Painting Workshop with Carl Schmalz Click Here to make reservations or call us at (207) 389-1339
JUNE 27 - 29 •
Landscape Painting with David Beynon Pena Click Here to make reservations or call us at (207) 389-1339
JUNE 29 - JULY 4 • Painting Plein-Air with Björn
Runquist Click Here to make reservations or call us at (207) 389-1339
JULY 6 - 11 • Direct, Fresh Painting with Karen O'Neil Click Here to make reservations or call us at (207) 389-1339
JULY 20 - 25 • Creative Expression
with Judi Betts Click Here to make reservations or call us at (207) 389-1339
AUGUST 24 - 29 • Painting Outdoors with Robert Seyffert Click Here to make reservations or call us at (207) 389-1339
SEPT. 7 - 12 • Outdoor Painting with Lois Dodd Click Here to make reservations or call us at (207) 389-1339 |
CARL
SCHMALZ will start 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. 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 Wiscasset and Kennebunkport,
Maine; Boston, Massachusetts; Naples, Florida; and Hamilton, Bermuda.
DAVID
BEYNON PENA is returning this summer to teach a weekend workshop
called "The Landscape Painting Weekend Workshop"
David Beynon Pena is a native New Yorker, though his landscapes depicting
train stations in Philadelphia and Hoboken have been awarded the Benjamin
Altman Prize and the Allied Artists Gold Medal. Pena Studios is located
on historic Union Square in NYC. Mr. Pena commissioned work includes
portraits of Dr. & Mrs. K. David G. Edwards, U.S. Senator Howell Heflin,
Sean Connery, Gregory Hines and Sir Edwin Manton. Mr. Pena is currently
on the faculty of the NJ Center for the Visual Arts, Sommerset Art Association
and has taught at the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design,
the Montclair Museum and the School of Visual Arts. He currently resides
in NYC with his wife Alison.
BJÖRN
RUNQUIST follows with a week long workshop this summer "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. He is a self-taught painter who makes his home in
Connecticut and, for the last 25 years, also in Clark Island, Maine.
He has exhibited 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.
KAREN
O'NEIL has been instructing painting and drawing courses and
workshops throughout the Northeast for the past 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. Open to all color mediums. Demonstrations will be
conducted in oil paint and also oil pastel. All skill levels are welcome.
JUDI
BETTS, who lives in a world of creativity, imagination and
inspiration, will continue her watercolor sessions entitled
"Creative Expression ...Exploring Color, Form and Composition"
A master of luminosity, she is known for her paintings that "sparkle"
and considers herself a painter who also teaches. This workshop features
daily demonstrations and personal attention in a fun filled environment.
Participants will explore color, texture, design and Judi's concept
of magical shapes. Compositional planning and configurations will be
examined. Lectures are designed to encourage, expand and explore. Daily
challenges are given which are personalized to individual levels of
experience. Judi is a member of both the National Arts and Salmagundi
Clubs; and her award winning paintings have been displayed widely in
national /international competitions including the National Academy,
Butler Institute, Societe Canadienne de l'Aguarelle and the National
Taiwan Art Education Institute. In 2007, sixty of Judi paintings were
shown in a solo exhibition at the Akavarell Center in Stockholm, Sweden.
Another of her works was selected for inclusion in the 1st Invitational
Exhibition of Contemporary International Watermedia Masters held in
Nanjing, China. A new book by North Light, Strokes of Genius, includes
six of her drawings; and her paintings have been included in four of
their Splash titles. Judi has been a guest instructor and lecturer at
several universities, and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
She has authored two award winning books, and contributes to many art
magazines. She has served on the jury of selection for the America Watercolor
Society annual exhibition and serves on their board of directors.
We
are pleased to welcome back ROBERT SEYFFERT to our
summer series with his "Painting Outdoors Workshop."
Born in Bryn Maw Pennsylvania, Mr. Seyffert is a NewYork based artist
who has worked and lived in France, Nova Scotia and Maryland. After
earning his BFA at the Maryland Institute, Seyffert went on to earn
his MFA at the Parsons School of Design where he studied with Paul Resika
and Leland Bell. Seyffert is known for both his landscapes and cityscapes.
In his most recent profile in American Artist magazine, he explained
the appeal of both natural and urban scenes. "Whether it a big tree
or a 1965 Pontiac," Seyffert said, "there something about the light
hitting the subject that excites me, and that what I paint ..... I'm
trying to get the sensation created by the thing I'm looking at, and
not just copying it" (Howell, 2003). Seyffert's cityscapes, depicting
the streets of New York and Baltimore and featuring vintage automobiles,
are frequently compared to the works of Edward Hopper. "I started painting
these cars just like Dutch painters would approach a still life, how
they'd carefully place fruit on a table to catch the light in a certain
way". Seyffert said (Howell, 2003). "I get the same kind of excitement
for light on chrome." Seyffert has taught drawing and painting at the
Art Students League, New York; Washington Studio School, Washington,
D.C.; Baltimore School for the Arts and Johns Hopkins University. He
was director of the Alfred and Trafford Klots Residency Program at Rochefort-en-Terre,
France. Among Seyffert's awards are a first prize from the National
Arts Club, a Helena Rubinstein Grant from the Parsons School of Design,
a Greenshields Fellowship, and a Yale at Norfolk Summer School Fellowship.
Seyffert's work resides in many institutional and private collections,
including the National Portrait Gallery. Seyffert's work has been shown
in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including shows at Loyola College,
Baltimore; National Arts Club, New York; Washington Studio School, Washington,
D.C.; and Paula MacDonald Gallery, Chester, Nova Scotia. From 1999-2002
the exhibition, "Leopold, Richard, and Robert Seyffert: Three Generations
of Artistic Visions," featuring more than 100 paintings by Seyffert,
his uncle, and his grandfather, was shown in Baltimore, New York, and
Washington, D.C.
This
summer we welcome LOIS DODD and 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. Recently she has shown at Bowdoin College
in Maine, and Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Currently the Alexandre
Gallery in Manhattan represents Ms. Dodd. Her work can be found in a
wide variety of museums and collections including the following: Colby
College Museum, Waterville, ME; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield,
MO; Kalamazoo Art Center, Kalamazoo, MI; The Museo delI'Arte, Italy;
The National Academy of Design, NY; Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY; as well
as in both the Ogunquit Museum of American Art and the Farnsworth Art
Museum, both of Maine. 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.
The Program Sunday. Please plan to check in between 2:00 and 4:00 pm. There will be a get-acquainted complimentary cocktail party at 5:30, followed by dinner at 6:30. After dinner there will be an informal discussion between the instructor and workshop participants. Monday through Friday. Classes will run most of the day, outdoors unless it rains. On rainy days, participants may work indoors, in our art studio building. Informal picnic lunches will be packed for you to enjoy on location. There will also be some evening discussions with the instructor and workshop participants to critique participant's work. On Friday, checkout time from the cottages is by 10:30; classes will end at noon with an oceanside lobster bake. Rates Rates include all classes, evening sessions, cocktail reception, lodging, three meals per day through Friday's lobster bake, and all taxes and gratuities. Please note, we do not accept credit cards. |
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