Master landscape painter Terry Elkins will conduct his annual five-day workshop in advanced
en plein air
painting sponsored by the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton starting on Monday, July 20, at 8:30 a.m. at his Wainscott studio.
While the tradition of painting out of doors goes back centuries, it flourished during the 19th century in both the United States and Europe. The earliest members of the East End art colony, including William Merritt Chase, Samuel Colman and Thomas Moran, are known for their paintings of the area’s land and seascapes.
Mr. Elkins received his MFA in painting from the University of Houston in 1978. When he first visited the East End during that time, he was an abstract painter. But after moving to Bridgehampton in 1987, his work began to change and he gradually became a painter of landscapes.
Mr. Elkins’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad and is in numerous public and private collections. He has received two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Awards.
The first class will assemble at Mr. Elkins’s studio in Wainscott, where he lives and works in a converted potato barn. From there, weather permitting, the students will take paints and easels into the surrounding countryside. The class will offer hands-on instruction and will teach the techniques necessary to capture the unique light and the colors of the landscape. Students will also learn how to observe and identify subjects to paint, and have their work critiqued.
The workshops, which are part of the Parrish Art Museum’s summer adult program, are scheduled for Monday, July 20, through Friday, July 24, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. daily, and costs $350 for Parrish members and $400 for nonmembers. To register, call 283-2118, ext. 21, or visit the museum’s website, www.parrishart.org.
on Jul 14, 2009