CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
Lindsey Tucker Gutierrez
Oil Painting Workshop - FULL
Three-day oil painting workshop, January 12, 13, 14, 2026, at Phaeton Gallery, Main Studio.
For more information - lisa@phaetongallery.com
Quality instruction
Oil on canvas, invented and inspired landscapes
Focus on color and brushwork
Three days, small class size
$325 for three days | Registration is FULL, waitlist is available.Designed for intermediate and advanced painters, this series offers quality instruction, small class sizes, and personalized guidance to help you refine technique and deepen your understanding of this timeless medium. If you are new to oil painting, we will provide extra support.
Lindsey Tucker Gutierrez (b. 1990) is an artist based in Wiesbaden, Germany. Gutierrez received her Bachelor of Fine Art in 2017 from Georgia State University. Through an exaggeration of gesture, and manipulation of color + space, she uses the subject of landscapes as a point of departure rather than one of arrival. Gutierrez’s abstract landscapes favor emotional truth over visual realism and are an invitation to challenge our ways of understanding certainty and absolutes. She has been awarded artist residencies with Lawayaka Current and Saint Gertrude’s Monastery. She is represented by Camellia Art Gallery in Hilton Head, SC. Her work lives in private collections throughout North America, Europe, and Australia.
From Lindsey:
My work is deeply rooted in a visual awareness of the physical world, but is rarely made directly from life. I use the subject of landscape as a point of departure rather than one of arrival. Each painting begins with inspiration collected from sketches, photographs, sentiments, memories, or emotional experiences. Visual references may be used in the initial stages of the painting process but are eventually set aside to allow the painting to evolve on its own without a mandated conclusion. Paintings may be reminiscent of a specific place; however, through an exaggeration of gesture, and manipulation of color + space, my artwork favors the emotional experience of the painting over visual realism. My paintings are an invitation to explore our tendency as humans to want to name and be certain of anything and everything. We want to know we are right. We want to know we are going to be okay. We want resolutions, absolutes, security. Within all the uncertainty cast upon us is the very nature and beauty of life itself.
Schedule:
Morning (9:00 AM – 12:30 PM): Coffee bar and book talk, demonstrations, lessons, and guided practice
Lunch: Bring a lunch to enjoy in conversation with fellow painters
Afternoon (1:00 – 4:00 PM): Instruction, Open painting with one-on-one coaching
Lindsey Tucker Gutierrez
Oil Painting Workshop - FULL
Two-day oil painting workshop, January 20 & 21, 2026, at Phaeton Gallery, Main Studio.
For more information - lisa@phaetongallery.com
Quality instruction
Oil on canvas, invented and inspired landscapes
Focus on color and brushwork
Two days, small class size
$200 for two days | Registration is FULL! Waitlist is available.Designed for intermediate and advanced painters, this series offers quality instruction, small class sizes, and personalized guidance to help you refine technique and deepen your understanding of this timeless medium. If you are new to oil painting, we will provide extra support.
Lindsey Tucker Gutierrez (b. 1990) is an artist based in Wiesbaden, Germany. Gutierrez received her Bachelor of Fine Art in 2017 from Georgia State University. Through an exaggeration of gesture, and manipulation of color + space, she uses the subject of landscapes as a point of departure rather than one of arrival. Gutierrez’s abstract landscapes favor emotional truth over visual realism and are an invitation to challenge our ways of understanding certainty and absolutes. She has been awarded artist residencies with Lawayaka Current and Saint Gertrude’s Monastery. She is represented by Camellia Art Gallery in Hilton Head, SC. Her work lives in private collections throughout North America, Europe, and Australia.
From Lindsey:
My work is deeply rooted in a visual awareness of the physical world, but is rarely made directly from life. I use the subject of landscape as a point of departure rather than one of arrival. Each painting begins with inspiration collected from sketches, photographs, sentiments, memories, or emotional experiences. Visual references may be used in the initial stages of the painting process but are eventually set aside to allow the painting to evolve on its own without a mandated conclusion. Paintings may be reminiscent of a specific place; however, through an exaggeration of gesture, and manipulation of color + space, my artwork favors the emotional experience of the painting over visual realism. My paintings are an invitation to explore our tendency as humans to want to name and be certain of anything and everything. We want to know we are right. We want to know we are going to be okay. We want resolutions, absolutes, security. Within all the uncertainty cast upon us is the very nature and beauty of life itself.
Schedule:
Morning (9:00 AM – 12:30 PM): Coffee bar and book talk, demonstrations, lessons, and guided practice
Lunch: Bring a lunch to enjoy in conversation with fellow painters
Afternoon (1:00 – 4:00 PM): Instruction, Open painting with one-on-one coaching
Laura Wooten - Still Life
Oil Painting Workshop
PLANTSCAPES: A Perceptual Painting Immersion with Laura Wooten
February 17 & 18, 2026 - Four spaces remaining.
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.
FROM LAURA:
Through a close observation of the natural world, with layers of memory and invention, I create artwork that values our human connection to the landscape.
My current work reflects my interest in painting the landscape of my daily experience: the fields and meadows of central Virginia, views to the distant Blue Ridge Mountains from my hilltop neighborhood, and the way trees mark the passing of time in my own backyard. My paintings explore the places they represent, as well as the inner landscape of my experience and how it might be shared. Color, shape, and mark fall in service to the perception of an emotional presence in the land that is both highly personal and universally human. The landscape painting becomes a mirror into our own histories, reveries, and associations.
I earned my undergraduate degree in Art and Architecture at the University of Virginia and continued on at UVA as an Aunspaugh Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in Studio Art before earning my MFA from American University. During graduate school, I attended a summer program in Perugia, Italy, at the Accademia de Belle Arti Pietro Vannucci, where the panoramic Mediterranean landscape took hold of my imagination. My landscape paintings have been exhibited across the East Coast, including juried exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, Delaware, the Bowery Gallery in New York City and the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Boston. Recent solo exhibitions in Charlottesville include “Spirit of Place: Landscapes Real & Imagined” at Chroma Projects in 2019 and “View from the Ridge” at Second Street Gallery in 2020/21.
I’m an artist, a mom, and a co-owner of Orzo Kitchen & Wine Bar in Charlottesville, Virginia with my husband and two dear friends. Our travels throughout the Mediterranean have cultivated an on-going passion for the food, wine, landscapes, and culture of this region. Whether I am cooking for my family with local produce at home, or sharing a special meal while traveling abroad, I cherish the connections between landscape, culture, and family that shape our food traditions, our sense of place, and our feelings of belonging.
9:00 am - 4:00 pm, $200 for two days.
Inquiries and pre-registration: lisa@phaetongallery
The Painting School - Plein Air
with Laura Wooten
April Plein Air with Laura Wooten at Portaferry Farm in Batesville
April 8, 15, 22, and 29, 2026 4 days /$450
Immerse yourself in the seasonal changes and rural beauty of Albemarle County as we paint outdoors at historic Portaferry Farm in Batesville, VA. Working from observation, 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.
General Schedule:
• 8:30 AM: Studio opens for arrival and set up
• 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Lessons, demos, and guided practice
• Noon – 1:00: Lunch Break & Conversation, Bring a bag lunch.
• 1:00 – 3:45 Painting and individual coaching. Allow time for clean-up.
• 4:00 PM Departure
Week 1: LIGHT & COLOR
• Mixing a Color Matrix for Landscape
• Value: Range of Light to Dark
• Temperature: Range of Warm to Cool
• Intensity or Saturation: Range of Bright to Neutral
Week 2: COMPOSITION & SPACE
• Point of View & Dynamic Composition
• Cropping to Engage Edges
• Movement & Circulation through Space
• Push & Pull of Color creates Near & Far
Week 3: SHAPE & FORM
• Positive & Negative Shapes
• Creating Form with Color & Light
• Handling Edges: crisp to soft
• Simplifying & Merging for Clarity of Form
Week 4: MARK & SURFACE
• Gesture & Mark: Finding your “hand”
• Experimenting with tools
• Directionality, Harmony & Variation of marks
• Building a surface through edits & layers
FROM LAURA:
Through a close observation of the natural world, with layers of memory and invention, I create artwork that values our human connection to the landscape.
My current work reflects my interest in painting the landscape of my daily experience: the fields and meadows of central Virginia, views to the distant Blue Ridge Mountains from my hilltop neighborhood, and the way trees mark the passing of time in my own backyard. My paintings explore the places they represent, as well as the inner landscape of my experience and how it might be shared. Color, shape, and mark fall in service to the perception of an emotional presence in the land that is both highly personal and universally human. The landscape painting becomes a mirror into our own histories, reveries, and associations.
I earned my undergraduate degree in Art and Architecture at the University of Virginia and continued on at UVA as an Aunspaugh Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in Studio Art before earning my MFA from American University. During graduate school, I attended a summer program in Perugia, Italy, at the Accademia de Belle Arti Pietro Vannucci, where the panoramic Mediterranean landscape took hold of my imagination. My landscape paintings have been exhibited across the East Coast, including juried exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, Delaware, the Bowery Gallery in New York City and the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Boston. Recent solo exhibitions in Charlottesville include “Spirit of Place: Landscapes Real & Imagined” at Chroma Projects in 2019 and “View from the Ridge” at Second Street Gallery in 2020/21.
I’m an artist, a mom, and a co-owner of Orzo Kitchen & Wine Bar in Charlottesville, Virginia with my husband and two dear friends. Our travels throughout the Mediterranean have cultivated an on-going passion for the food, wine, landscapes, and culture of this region. Whether I am cooking for my family with local produce at home, or sharing a special meal while traveling abroad, I cherish the connections between landscape, culture, and family that shape our food traditions, our sense of place, and our feelings of belonging.
Inquiries and pre-registration: lisa@phaetongallery
