Instructor: Jim Woodside
Tuesday - Friday
September 3 - 6
9am - 1pm
4 Sessions
A plein air workshop, open to those who wish to paint (and/or draw) from direct observation of the landscape. Working on-site helps an artist to maintain a direct, authentic, and personal relationship to the subject matter they are painting. There is a natural emphasis on simplifying and quickly editing as a means of describing the drama and expressive power of color, forms, and light seen in the landscape. This sense of immediacy, and interacting in-the-moment, is a great way for artists to make personal stylistic discoveries while testifying to the beauty of the landscape before them.
Jim Woodside, originally from Baltimore, has been making art and teaching in Massachusetts for the past 36 years. Prior to that, in 1983 he earned his MFA in painting at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, where I studied with Grace Hartigan; and in 1980 he participated in the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program in NYC. While on a trip to Nova Scotia, he found himself painting landscapes for the first time in the mid-1990s. Since that time, it has become the main emphasis of his work. Perhaps he was starting to see painting as drama or adventure, but as an artist, Jim found himself increasingly drawn to environments that seemed especially powerful and embedded with stories. For example, in addition to his time in Atlantic Canada,Jim Woodside has also done a great deal of painting in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona over the past 10 years, and in 2003 he had the unique opportunity to paint landscapes in Antarctica for two months under the auspices of a grant from the US National Science Foundation. Jim has exhibited paintings in New York City, New England, and elsewhere nationally, especially in the southwest, where his work is represented by Medicine Man Gallery in Tucson, AZ.
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