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Join us for a four day painting workshop with international artist Anna Martin!The aim of this workshop is to give each participant an experience of acrylic painting combining plein-air work and completion of works in a studio environment. The workshop will consist of practical demonstrations, including colour theory, composition and essential drawing techniques, painting styles. Each participant will be given the freedom to paint in their chosen style and I will offer one on one guidance throughout the workshop.
Anna is mostly described as an expressionist painter. She derives her influence from the language and vibrancy of the impressionists and abstract expressionists. At times drawn to more abstract compositions with a mute colour palette and at others boldly expressing discordant colour harmonies. She is very influenced by music and as a pianist she says of her work. "My art is a vehicle to transform the world into dazzling colour and rhythm and offers a lens through which the world is viewed as a myriad of colour and instant emotion .” She works unconsciously to allow gestural movements and rhythm to guide her painting. Music and movement fuse to direct the rhythm of her brushwork in a rapid momentum to create and evoke a sense of place in her art. Her colour harmonies like music resonate at a deeper level and carry a momentum regardless of the subject. Her semi abstract paintings provoke an emotional experience rather than carrying a narrative. For Anna art is transformational and with her background of applied psychology Anna uses art as a form of mindfulness which activates new neural pathways both in the painter and the viewer. She also likes to capture movement and convey this energy through subjects such as horses or dancers and conveys the energy of a fleeting moment as though seen through the eyes of the subject.
This workshop will run 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. (with a lunch break) Monday - Thursday, September 9th - 12th at the Monongalia Arts Center.
The workshop cost is $300 ($270 for MAC members!) for the course, with a $100 deposit to reserve your spot.
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107 High St, Morgantown, WV, United States, West Virginia 26505
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