Seeing and Simplifying in a Charged Landscape with Rick Fox
2023-10-09 | Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park (Winter Harbor, ME)
Join Rick Fox at Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park this fall for Seeing and Simplifying in a Charged Landscape. "In my experience the idea of 'seeing' is exponentially exciting and fluid, but then, paired with the act of translating that experience to a flat surface with paint Pandora's box! I will share influences, personal motivations, and questions that arise during this process of 'Seeing and Simplifying in a Charged Landscape." Rick Fox

During this workshop, each day will be a combination of in-studio problem solving and plein-air landscape painting. The studio work will involve specific and directed limitations in anticipation of some of the core challenges, contradictions, and joys of painting in the open, energized landscape. We will make two paintings each day. The morning studio painting will foreshadow issues of the plein air experience in the afternoon. The afternoon painting will be an opportunity to apply the morning studio work out in direct relationship with the landscape.

For a full materials list for this workshop, please click here.

About Rick Fox

Rick Fox (b.1968) is known for the rugged energy and colliding color shapes in his plein air landscapes. He is represented by the Courthouse Gallery in Ellsworth, Maine. Living and painting in Maine since 2013 has been transformative to his painting and has granted him access to a spring of inspiration that that continues to unfold.

Rick has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. In addition to the Courthouse Gallery, he is also represented by Gallery NAGA, Boston and Tregony Gallery, UK. With a grant administered by the William James Association in partnership with the N.E.A he designed and implement a Painting and Drawing program for inmates in Federal Prison at FMC Devens in Ayer, MA. Other grants include the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant (twice) and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation's Piscataqua Region 25,000.00 Artist Advancement Grant. Fellowships and residencies have included the Ballinglen Foundation in County Mayo, Ireland, Mark Rothko Center in Latvia, Playa Residency in Oregon, the Heliker-Lahontan Foundation on Cranberry Island, ME, and the C-Scape Dune Shack Residency in Provincetown, MA.

Rick taught Painting and Drawing full time for Assumption University and University of New Hampshire for a combined 16 years and was a mentor to MFA painting candidates at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Lesley University. Rick has also spent several summers teaching painting in Italy.

REGISTER TODAY: https://schoodicinstitute.org/event/seeing-and-simplifying-in-a-charged-landscape-with-rick-fox/
