Instructor: Carol Pelletier
Monday - Tuesday
June 1 - 2
10am - 4pm
2 sessions

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work in geometric abstraction? Have you always worked from observation and realism but wondered how to get to abstraction? Are there elements and principles in design that you need to brush up on in order to get there? Do you need a better understanding of color schemes?

This workshop will focus primarily on deconstruction while capturing the essence of your subject matter.  We will begin with a prompt, do some research and develop multiple sketches while utilizing a color harmony book to develop strong color combinations for future paintings.  Media is open during the sketching process.  This includes watercolor, gouache, and colored pencil.  We will then work in oil and cold wax medium to develop one finished painting or more if we have time. 

This  workshop will provide you with the necessary skills to develop further work with confidence and understanding of how to approach your imagery in geometric abstraction. 

Carol Pelletier (b.1969, Fort Kent, ME) is an artist currently living and working on the Northshore of Boston. She is represented by the Cynthia Winings Gallery in Blue Hill, Maine, Morpeth Contemporary in Hopewell, NJ and the Gallery on Federal in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and internationally, including Speedwell Projects in Portland, Maine, the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art in NYC, Boecker Contemporary in Heidelberg Germany, Centre d'Art Contemporain Metz France, Saint-Mary's University in Nova Scotia, Julie Heller East, Provincetown, and Soren Christensen in New Orleans. Her work has been in multiple catalog exhibitions and publications including New American Paintings, Southwest Art Magazine, Creative Quarterly, Artscope and Art New England. She is a professor of art at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts. She is currently a visiting artist at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill in Truro, MA and has been a visiting artist at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem and Snow Farm in Williamsburg, MA. Her work has earned support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mellon Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center and she is a Salzburg Global Fellow. Carol Pelletier is the Chair of Fine Arts and Professor at Endicott College, in Beverly Massachusetts.