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Sargent and the sea

A good friend, Ron Longstaffe, now passed away, was an off-and-on fishing companion. A significant collector of what we amusingly called low- and medium-skilled art, he and I frequently whiled away boat hours discussing the virtues of his multi-million dollar collection. As he didn’t care for my work and didn’t have any to speak of, we always felt we could be quite straightforward with each other. Finely art-literate for a capitalist, he surprised me one day when he told me he didn’t know John Singer Sargent painted landscapes. “I thought he was just a society portrait painter,” he said....Read On

Upcoming Workshops

Jul 27, 2018 to Aug 1, 2018 - Creating a Visual Memoir Using Writing and Collage — Taos, New Mexico

Join internationally acclaimed award winning artist, teacher, speaker and art coach, Gwen Fox, and international speaker, author, psychotherapist and writing coach, Junie Swadron for 5 days of magical artistic expression.

These five days are devoted to igniting your creativity, imagination allowing you to reconnect with your personal sense of beauty and truth.

Both collage and writing have enormous power to invoke your muse and the invisible intelligence that emanates from your heart.

You do not have to have previous experience in painting, collage or writing. Cost of the Retreat…..$1395

For more information: https://gwenfox.com/workshop/creating-visual-memoir-using-writing-collage/

If you have any questions please email gwen@gwenfox.com or phone 575-751-0183
Aug 2, 2018 to Aug 7, 2018 - Art Retreat Kawartha Highlands of Ontario, Canada with Keith Thirgood

On this unique art retreat, Keith leads a group of artists by canoe into the backcountry of Kawartha Highlands. Mixed forest, lakes, islands, rock faces, swamps and more. This place is a great place to paint, if you like views looking like they did 100 years ago. Keith is a post-impressionist painter and teaches compositional fundamentals, how to bring order out of the chaos of a live scene when painting en plein air, plus how modern colour theory can make colour mixing easy.

Watch for these other retreats.

June 14-17 Ottawa Valley, Ontario

September 1-6, paint in the Killarney/La-Cloche Mountain, Ontario

For more information, visit:

http://www.wilsonstreetstudios.com/retreats-2018.html
Aug 13, 2018 to Aug 17, 2018 - Abstracts That Sell — Workshop/Retreat Taos, New Mexico

Discover the #1 secret to selling your abstract paintings. This fun yet intense retreat offers the freedom to find your personal creative voice. Develop exciting abstracts designs, learn how to achieve a glow in your abstracts plus my secret on how to never be without an abstract design.

Come to Taos, New Mexico for this special retreat filled with information, artistic growth and creativity. Watch the evening New Mexico light caress the adobe walls filling the air with a soft apricot glow… it is this light that inspires us to enter our soul.

For more information email gwen@gwenfox.com or call 575-751-0183.

http://www.gwenfox.com
Aug 13, 2018 to Aug 17, 2018 - Drawing and Painting in Rural Newfoundland

Enjoy five full days of drawing and painting at Mill Road Studio in Port Rexton, NL. Work in the studio overlooking scenic Trinity Bay, and en plein air in the stunning coastal landscape with dramatic cliffs rising up out of the North Atlantic.

Sessions run from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. each day.

The cost is $1,250.00 CAD including lunch and all materials.

For more information please write szeifman@millroadstudio.com
or phone Stephen Zeifman at 709-464-3907.

stephenzeifman.com
Aug 25, 2018 to Aug 31, 2018 - Stalking Caribou With a Paintbrush

Capture on canvas the vibrant autumn reds, mauves, greens and golds of the Arctic tundra. Distractions: Caribou migrating south from their summer feeding grounds to their winter shelter; magical nightly displays of northern lights; world-class fishing for Arctic char or grayling; hiking or boat trips to see ancient Inuit sites; or, after an excellent dinner, hear of the exploits of the owners during their adventures to the North & South Poles. An experience like no other!

Not a workshop but rather a group paint out under the guidance of professional oil painter and textile designer Mette Baker (http://mettebaker.com/). Mette has been painting at Arctic Haven, a wilderness lodge in the southwest corner of Nunavut, for the past two years. Her husband, former Canadian Ambassador and consultant Brian Baker, has been leading groups to Greenland and Northern Canada for many years.

For more details about Arctic Haven, see website: https://www.arctichaven.ca/

For information about the trip generally, contact Brian brian@businessbeyond.ca