CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
Laura Wooten - Oil Painting
March 20 & 21, 2024
(FULL WITH WAITLIST)
PLANTSCAPES: A Perceptual Painting Immersion with Laura Wooten
Join Charlottesville artist, Laura Wooten, for a two-day immersive oil painting experience. Working from observation with arrangements of plants and flowers, we will build foundational skills while exploring color, light, shape, composition, and mark-making. The beauty and complexity of nature will be our muse as we learn to simplify forms, untangle the parts from the whole, and create dynamic paintings that reflect a powerful and personalized visual language. Students will learn a framework for observational painting that is independent of style, allowing for the discovery of their own artistic temperament and authentic interpretation of the natural world.
Some basic oil painting experience is recommended. Beginner to advanced painters are welcome.
$295 / 2-day workshop. Email pattie@phaetongallery.com or lisa@phaetongallery.com to register.
ARTIST BIO:
Laura Wooten is a painter focused on our human connection to the landscape. Through a close observation of the natural world, with layers of memory and invention, she explores notions of time, place, rootedness, and reverie. She is engaged with painting the landscapes of her daily life: the fields of central Virginia, views to the distant Blue Ridge Mountains, the trees that mark the passing of time in her own backyard, and the immersive plants and flowers that spill from her garden beds and window ledge.
Phaeton Gallery is pleased to host Laura Wooten’s workshop in our historic Carriage Works Studios space on the Downtown Mall in beautiful Charlottesville, Virginia.
Priscilla Whitlock in Plein Air
April 29, 30 & May 1, 2024
(FULL, ACCEPTING WAITLIST)
Painting in the Garden
Join Charlottesville artist, Priscilla Whitlock, for a three-day plein air oil painting experience in exquisite private Albemarle gardens.
plein-air
/plānˈer/
adjective
pertaining to a manner or style of painting developed chiefly in France in the mid-19th century, characterized by the representation of the luminous effects of natural light and atmosphere as contrasted with the artificial light and absence of the sense of air or atmosphere associated with paintings produced in the studio.
designating a painting executed out of doors and representing a direct response to the scene or subject in front of the artist.
Some basic oil painting experience is recommended. Beginner to advanced painters are welcome.
$495 / 3-day workshop. Housing and meals not included. Coffee and pastries included. Easels included. Materials list is available upon registration.
Email lisa@phaetongallery.com to register. This small-group workshop will fill quickly! Please confirm your space soon.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
"After years of painting, my interest is to interpret landscapes. The subject matter is about the physicality and energy of the paint and less about landscape as "scenery." Produced by painted marks, dashes, swipes of oil, oil sticks, shapes, and colors, they all come together to represent the mood, light, and sense of place. From a close vantage point, the work is most abstract, but viewed from a distance, it "comes together" to represent a field, marsh, or "view."
My artist studio is near the Blue Ridge Mountains in Albemarle County, Virginia. I would also love to work at Wrightsville Beach on the southern coast of N.C. Dramatic Lunar high tides are accessible only a few times a year and only by boat—the marshes flood and bloom like a field.
I also create monotypes. Monotypes are a type of print not to be confused with a computer-generated photo; monotypes are one-of-a-kind prints made by hand. I paint directly on a plate and transfer the image, using a press, to a piece of paper."
Phaeton Gallery is pleased to host Priscilla Whitlock’s workshop in three lovely, private gardens in Albemarle County. Details and locations available with completed registration.
Our gallery is located at 114 Old Preston Avenue, just opposite the Omni Hotel and two blocks from the Residence Inn by Marriott Charlottesville Downtown, Home2 Suites by Hilton Charlottesville Downtown, 200 South Street Inn, and a variety of comfortable home stays through www.staycharlottesville.com.