Impressionist Painting Lessons
with Dennis Lucas
Contact James Dyment to register: jdyment@whistlerhouse.org
Weekly Workshops:
Meeting once a week for a two hour period for five weeks. $200.00
Each Wednesday, July 15 to August 12, 10 am - 12 noon
Two day Workshop:
Two day session for three hours each day. $120.00
Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19, 10 am to 1 pm
Materials
Portable easel
Basic oil colors
Canvas or masonite boards
Palette knife/brushes
Turpentine
Paper towels
Classes limited to six students of all painting levels.
A basic overview of the Cape School method with the Instructor and then off to the great outdoors to create vibrant paintings!
A traditional Impressionist painter trained at the Cape School in Provincetown, Dennis’ work focuses on the ever-changing light key and its effects on color in nature. Lucas is a past Artist-In-Residence at the Whistler House Museum of Art. His work is currently featured on the Cape and Islands and is widely collected throughout the United States.
See his work at http://www.dennislucas.com/
from the top
Sacred Places Within You, 2006, acrylic on canvas, 48″ x 48″
Sacred Places Within You, 1997, oil on canvas, 36″ x 36″
Kanjeevaram Series I, 2005, oil on canvas, 24″ x 24″
In the Parker Gallery
George Oommen: A Retrospective
July 1 to July 31, 2009
Reception: Saturday, July 18, 5 pm - 7 pm
The art of George Oommen is nostalgic in the best unsentimental sense. His paintings evoke a kind of sheer unearthly beauty. They are inspired by a place on the planet, however. One of the impulses behind them is to evoke an atmosphere that is at an opposite pole from the austere ambiance of Boston where he resides most of the time. Already George Oommen has been a painter for several decades and he has explored many styles and attitudes. In a very real sense he is a complete artist: he is at a point where his work, though intensely retinal, has a wide range of meaning. Rooted in sensuousness, and realized in an everyday manner. Oommen’s vision of Kerala, has given him a concentrated approach to art and enabled him to achieve a conspicuous spiritual dimension.
William Zimmer, Contributing Art Critic to NY Times, New York City
Opening Act, by Quilt Artist Elaine Quehl from Ontario, Canada
Quiltscapes at the Whistler
Aug 5 to Aug 29, 2009
Gallery Night: Thursday, Aug 6, 5:50 - 8:30 pm
High Tea & Art Quilts in Bloom:
Friday, Aug 7, 12 - 2 pm
Artist Reception: Saturday, Aug 8, 2 - 4 pm
The museum celebrates the Art Quilt with a focus on fine craftsmanship and visual design that transcends traditional patterns and functionality. This year’s theme, Quiltscapes, is inspired by the landscape genre, including living flora and fauna, lighting and weather conditions, and human elements, such as a city or built environment.
The Long Goodbye, oil on canvas
In the Member’s Room:Lynne Foy: A Visual Voice
Aug 5 to Aug 29, 2009
Reception: Sat, Aug 8, 2 pm - 4 pm
Exhibit also open Sun, Aug 9, 10 am - 3 pm
Lynne Foy creates nostalgic, atmospheric landscapes, seascapes, and skyscapes which are multilayered, with respect to both their structural composition and symbolic meaning.The spiritual transformation of an individual in response to an existentially challenging situation, often confronts the viewer with the fragile nature of human existence. Defining and interpreting the fluid dynamism of darkness and light, the real and surreal, nihilism and conscious being is her painting journey.
Foy was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. She graduated from New England School of Art and has been a magazine illustrator and graphic designer for thirty years. Her illustrations have appeared in several magazines and publications. Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent have been the most influential painters in an artistic journey to achieve her visual voice.
Foy has exhibited at Galleria Artemisia, Provincetown, MA; Lyman-Eyer Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Thanassi Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Provincetown Museum; and Whistler House Museum of Art. She is a member of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; and the Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA.