Instructor: Jill Goldman-Callahan
Monday - Friday
July 13 - 17
9am - 12pm
Open Studio: Mon - Thurs, 1 - 4pm
5 sessions
No one else can make what you make. This course is an invitation to build artistic courage and confidence with mixed media textural painting and process-based exploration, to bypass visual habits and create sophisticated, integrated textural paintings with acrylic paint.
Learn to use rice paper, fiber, crackle and molding pastes, pumice and glass bead gels, stucco, and Venetian plaster in your work. Study how contemporary artists generate original compositions using thoughtful spontaneity. Identify a personal palette though color mixing and photographic observation. Create small-scale maquettes and harvest their raw power for beginning larger compositions.
Use ekphrastic poetry to "experience" your work anew. Hone your visual decision-making skills with atmosphere, art elements and narrative. Tune into attraction and antipathy to define your unique painting world.
In addition to learning about integrating textural mediums, this course is a time to trust the process, encounter the unexpected and engage your subject matter. This is a space for both narrative and abstract artists to play, to be enchanted, to be surprised. Beginner to advanced welcome.
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Jill Goldman-Callahan is a contemporary abstract painter interested in mystery, nature and process. Thomas Moore, the best selling author of Care of the Soul, called her work “ Not a painting of, but a peek into…” Her poetic painting explores themes of peace and reverence for nature with textured, layered surfaces that evoke landscapes or biological forms. Jill’s intriguing surfaces integrate varied media such as paper, plaster and pumice with acrylic paint. Jill has an BA in Fine Arts and Anthropology from Bennington College and an MA in Art Therapy from Lesley University. Jill taught art in Wellesley Massachusetts public schools for 21 years and has worked as an art therapist, art educator, art education supervisor and artist mentor. In the last four years she has had solo shows at Towle Hill Gallery, the Bedford and Concord Libraries, The Harvey Wheeler Community Center, Acton Village Works Gallery and Trinity Church. She has been a guest artist many times at Three Stones gallery and her work had been included in multiple juried shows including at 6 Bridges gallery, The Thoreau society and the Concord Art Association. Jill is a resident and teaching artist at the Umbrella Arts Center in Concord MA. Her work lives in many private collections where people say it brings them a sense of peace.