Fall 2025 Painting School 

with Laura Wooten

The Painting School - Fall Session, Outdoor Painting

October 22, 29, November 5, 12

• Quality instruction + one-on-one guidance

• Historic 350 - acre farm in Albemarle County with ponds, stream and scenic barnyard, near to Pippin Hill

• Four weekly sessions, small class sizes

  
  $450 for 4 sessions | Registration Now Open, click here and email - lisa@phaetongallery.com

Join Phaeton Gallery for a four-week outdoor oil painting workshop with acclaimed artist Laura Wooten, set on a historic 350-acre farm in Albemarle County, near to Pippin Hill in charming Batesville. With ponds, a stream, scenic barnyard, and the fall colors of Yellow Mountain as your backdrop, you’ll have endless inspiration at your easel.

Schedule:

• Morning (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM): Coffee bar and book talk, demonstrations, lessons, and guided practice

• Lunch: Bring a lunch to enjoy in conversation with Laura and special guest artists

• Afternoon (1:00 – 4:00 PM): Open painting with one-on-one coaching

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.
Space is limited.

From  LAURA WOOTEN:

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.

Laura earned her 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 her MFA from American University. During graduate school, she attended a summer program in Perugia, Italy, at the Accademia de Belle Arti Pietro Vannucci, where the panoramic Mediterranean landscape took hold of her imagination.