Workshop
Maggie giving a painting demonstration
Study landscape painting in Provence with Maggie Siner
Saturday, July 7th – Saturday, July 14th, 2012
Maggie Siner is an exceptional teacher with a rare ability to communicate verbally about the visual world. Her high energy, structured approach, sincere generosity and love of craft bring students into direct contact with the deeper issues of painting. Her own sensitivity as a painter opens up a world of knowledge.
During this total immersion painting course students will discover a range of motifs; from patchwork valleys and vistas scattered with rolling fields of lavender, vineyards and olive orchards, to ancient perched villages cascading with red tile roofs, narrow irregular cobblestone streets, dramatic cliff formations and limestone quarries, to Roman ruins and modern cafes. Painters will use these motifs to approach the real challenges of landscape painting; the near and far of space, the changing aspects of color and light, creating atmospheric truth in a fleeting moment, finding the rhythms of nature and a personal response in brushwork, composition and materials.
Daylight hours are long. Expect to work hard and learn a lot. All daily needs and practical matters will be seen to by our lovely hosts so students are free to concentrate and devote themselves entirely to a week of pure painting.
Course includes: daily on-site morning and afternoon painting sessions, individual and group instruction, group critiques and discussion, in simple, comfortable accommodations with delicious healthy home-cooked meals, a swimming pool, library and painting studio.
Wednesday afternoon is reserved for a short trip to town for supplies if necessary. Otherwise you will spend your time in the lovely hamlet of Les Bassacs. Please schedule time for sight-seeing either before or after the workshop.
Participants receive plenty of individual instruction.
If you have any questions, contact Trisha Adams, the workshop coordinator –
540-454-5922
painterlyoils@gmail.com
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