Instructor: Fay Shutzer
Monday - Friday
August 11 - 15
9am - 12pm
5 sessions

Emphasis will be on plein air painting, with studio time as weather necessitates. We will explore the tension between realism and abstraction in each artist’s individual style, as well as the balance of plein air conditions versus studio. Each student will be encouraged to define their own individual goals and to explore the motivation that brings them to paint. Students will have the opportunity to experiment with palette knife if they wish, and to depict the colors of the landscape in changing conditions. Instruction will be in oil.

While all levels are welcome, familiarity with the materials is helpful.

Fay Shutzer, trained and licensed as a psychologist, had always longed to express herself through art from childhood on. An exhibit of her drawings in a youth art show led to a summer job drawing portraits in a restaurant. Yet, in college, though captivated by her studio art classes, she majored in psychology.  “I saw myself as ‘artistic’ but not as an artist. Looking back, I wonder how I made the distinction. “  After spending time on Cape Cod, where she was inspired by the landscape, the light and the art community, Fay became a student of Provincetown artist, Ann Packard. Training continued at the Art Students League in New York. Her landscapes reflect her New England roots and her passion for light on rural buildings, although as a resident of New York City, there is a place for cityscapes as well.  Fay is currently intrigued by the immediacy of plein air painting. Her work, exhibited at the Left Bank Gallery in Wellfleet, the Gallery of Graphic Arts in New York City, and as a guest artist at the Addison Gallery in Orleans. has been juried into numerous shows and competitions.

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