Painting with Watercolours Weekend Workshop
CNOL 2005
This popular weekend workshop is almost entirely hands-on and largely involves direct painting with no preliminary drawing. It is a course about doing, looking and seeing.
Participants will mix colours and see how colour and tone build visual space in paintings. They will learn both to control watercolour and to appreciate its freedom.
No painting with watercolour experience is necessary; those with experience are also welcome. A list of required supplies will be provided to registrants.
Instructor: Brigid Toole Grant
Dates: 2 classes Sat. and Sun. 1-4 pm Mar. 31 - Apr. 1, 2012
Location: Marshall D'Avray Hall room 123, UNB Fredericton Campus (click here for campus map)
Cost: $95 + HST
About the Instructor: Brigid Toole Grant stands among those Fredericton artists whose painterly direction and style was informed and influenced by the presence of the UNB Art Centre and, particularly, the resident artists who impacted activities there in the short and long term since the 1940s - including Lucy Jarvis, Fritz Brandtner, Alfred Pinsky, and Bruno and Molly Lamb Bobak.
Born in Montreal, Brigid Toole Grant grew up in Fredericton, where she
was introduced to art at a young age. This early art training was
complemented with studies at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and
l'École des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, although academically she completed a
liberal arts degree at UNB in 1961. Then she added to her art education
by registering at the Art Students League in New York, and at the City
and Guilds School of London, England.
The variety of media she uses which include drawing, watercolor, oil and
acrylic paint, and woodcut prints reinforce one another in her work Her
subjects, too, have always been close to home - intimate interiors,
scenes around home and garden, environments around Fredericton and Grand
Manan, self-portraits and those of her family and friends. They are
expressive representations not of singular moments or perspectives,
however, but rather a synthesis of multiple impressions, feelings and
associations gathered into a single tableau.
In concert with her art-making Brigid Toole Grant is widely recognized
for her teaching. She has had a long association instructing painting
and drawing in the department of extension at the University of New
Brunswick and, since 1979, at the New Brunswick College of Craft and
Design. In partnership with Molly Lamb Bobak, she offered a popular
course in painting and drawing at Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre
in St. Andrews for many years; and conducted workshops in British
Columbia, Quebec, and Newfoundland.
As an artist and art educator, she has also acted as eloquent
spokesperson on arts issues both on the provincial and national forum”.
Artist Profile, Gallery 78 website, http://www.gallery78.com/artists.htm
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