"A Personal Landscape"
This course, for experienced painters, will explore interpretation and abstraction of the local landscape and Irish mythology.
Focus will be on non-traditional use of colour and shape using watermedia and collage to express personal vision.
Examples of how other artists abstract the landscape and the importance of composition will be discussed in a power point presentation.
Participants will make quick studies both indoors and out, with full access to a well-lit. large studio with individual stations for prolonged works.
The class will explore the wild and breath-taking landscape around the seaside village of Ballycastle, County Mayo.
This Workshop takes place from the 18th - 24th September 2021. The cost is $1,850 which includes tuition, shared cottage with private bedroom for 8 nights, lunch/dinner/dessert/tea/coffee, collection/delivery to the bus/train stations in Ballina, full use of the Ballinglen Library & facilities 24/7. Participants arrive on the 17th and depart on the 25th September (The workshop is for seven days with arrival and departure day making it nine days). Payment is made to Ballinglen: USA/Ireland using the payment button on the website www.ballinglenworkshops.com. Please contact Úna Forde on unaforde.baf@gmail.com for availability and booking form.
Amy Metier has an MFA in Painting and is a former Professor of Fine Arts at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
She has led painting workshops in both Giverny and La Napoule in France and been awarded artist residencies at
Vermont Studio Center, the American Academy in Rome, the Ballinglen Foundation, the Mandelieu La Napoule and the Alfred Klotts Foundations in France. She exhibits at the William Havu Gallery in Denver. Metier's abstract paintings are in the collections of the Denver Art Museum and the Kirkland Museum in Denver as well as private collections throughout the United States and Europe.
www.amymetier.com
Instagram -- amymetier
To check availability for this Workshop please complete and submit the form below.
This course, for experienced painters, will explore interpretation and abstraction of the local landscape and Irish mythology.
Focus will be on non-traditional use of colour and shape using watermedia and collage to express personal vision.
Examples of how other artists abstract the landscape and the importance of composition will be discussed in a power point presentation.
Participants will make quick studies both indoors and out, with full access to a well-lit. large studio with individual stations for prolonged works.
The class will explore the wild and breath-taking landscape around the seaside village of Ballycastle, County Mayo.
This Workshop takes place from the 18th - 24th September 2021. The cost is $1,850 which includes tuition, shared cottage with private bedroom for 8 nights, lunch/dinner/dessert/tea/coffee, collection/delivery to the bus/train stations in Ballina, full use of the Ballinglen Library & facilities 24/7. Participants arrive on the 17th and depart on the 25th September (The workshop is for seven days with arrival and departure day making it nine days). Payment is made to Ballinglen: USA/Ireland using the payment button on the website www.ballinglenworkshops.com. Please contact Úna Forde on unaforde.baf@gmail.com for availability and booking form.
Amy Metier has an MFA in Painting and is a former Professor of Fine Arts at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
She has led painting workshops in both Giverny and La Napoule in France and been awarded artist residencies at
Vermont Studio Center, the American Academy in Rome, the Ballinglen Foundation, the Mandelieu La Napoule and the Alfred Klotts Foundations in France. She exhibits at the William Havu Gallery in Denver. Metier's abstract paintings are in the collections of the Denver Art Museum and the Kirkland Museum in Denver as well as private collections throughout the United States and Europe.
www.amymetier.com
Instagram -- amymetier
To check availability for this Workshop please complete and submit the form below.
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Ballinglen: USA/Ireland Workshop @ The Ballinglen Arts Foundation
"A Personal Landscape" Abstraction Workshop with Amy Metier 17th - 25th September 2021 Class from 18th - 24th September 2021 TOTAL $1,850.00 Registration begins on June 23rd 2020, booking forms must be received by July 1st 2021. First come, first serve basis.
A $500 booking fee applies & is non refundable payable by cheque or credit card. Final payment must be made before the 1st August 2021, please email for details re payment, booking forms will be accepted online. A small fee will apply for materials provided. We will email you a receipt once we receive a payment or booking. Payments are non-refundable 2 months prior to the class. Full refund will be made if the class is cancelled. Class participation constitutes an agreement to our Health and Safety Policy. Accommodation available from 17th with departure on the 25th. Collection at train/bus in Ballina is also included. Please contact Amy Metier with any questions on the class directly on email amymetier4@gmail.com. All other queries : Úna Forde, Managing Director, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Main Street, Ballycastle, Co Mayo, Ireland. T : +353 (0) 96 43184, E : ballinglenarts@gmail.com, unaforde.baf@gmail.com http://www.ballinglenartsfoundation.org/ http://www.facebook.com/ BallinglenArtsFoundation |