Abstract Painting with Acrylic

Abstract Painting with Acrylic Saturday January 28th, 2023 | 10:00AM to 4:00PM | $145.00 + tax | Lunch hour 12:30pm – 1:30pm |

Explore contemporary ideas about abstract painting in this full-day hands on workshop with painter Nancy Reyner. In the morning Nancy presents an overview of abstraction and a variety of approaches to painting abstractly. She will guide you through a fun and playful exercise meant to enhance abstract thinking and techniques. The afternoon allows for several options of your choice with Nancy’s personal assistance, including working on a painting-in-process brought from home, or starting a new painting. You can use any acrylic paint line you prefer (i.e., Heavy Body, Fluid or OPEN). All levels welcome. Previous experience with acrylic painting is recommended.

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Levels: All Levels

• Max Students: 10
• Bring Your Own Materials
• No Refunds after Tuesday January 24th
• Please park on Maclovia Street between Artisan and Autozone – Please DO NOT park directly behind our building

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Bio 

Nancy Reyner is a contemporary abstract artist, with a distinctive painting style. Her art career  kicked into gear running a puppet theater in New York City. Painting theatrical sets, building puppets and performing on stage put her smack on an art-path. An addiction to painting quickly followed, and she received her Bachelors in Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design, and Masters in Fine Arts from Columbia University.

Nancy credits her mature work to her move to Santa Fe, New Mexico – a place that honors the late master painter Georgia O’Keeffe. New Mexico was O’Keeffe’s old hang out and gave birth to several famous artist colonies in the early 20th century. Painting from New Mexico’s exquisite and diverse scenery initiated Nancy’s passion for landscape, abstraction and magical nature.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, Nancy now resides full time in Santa Fe. For over 30 years she has painted up a storm – exhibiting in numerous shows, enjoying representation by agents and galleries, teaching workshops, authoring four best-selling books on painting with North Light Books (now Penguin Books), and even forayed into television as a feature guest on HGTV’s That’s Clever.

Nancy continues to evolve her paintings through an exploration of play in all forms, determined as she says, to have fun while doing it.

For more information please go to Nancy’s Website:  https://nancyreyner.com/

Artist Statement 

I paint exotic versions of heaven – places in my imagination that are beautiful and meditative. Gold leaf and other unusual materials combine with paint to create these imaginary worlds. Nature is my muse for inspiring luminous interpretations of air, water, earth and light. Merging the literal and metaphorical, my paintings hover somewhere between pure abstraction and realistic landscape.

The ability to dream and create new worlds, by taking a flat surface and transforming it into the illusion of 3D, is the gift that painters can bring to the world. With this concept of manipulating dimensions, a painter may point out something that already exists but in such a skillful manner that the viewer sees their world in a brand new way.

This is my mission as an artist – to give our invisible inner world a tangible visible form. Art is a rewarding pursuit that adds quality of life, and I share this passion in my art and with my students.

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