Laura Wooten - Oil Painting

March 20 & 21, 2024

PLANTSCAPES: A Perceptual Painting Immersion with Laura Wooten

Join Charlottesville artist, Laura Wooten, for a two-day immersive oil painting experience. Working from observation with arrangements of plants and flowers, we will build foundational skills while exploring color, light, shape, composition, and mark-making. The beauty and complexity of nature will be our muse as we learn to simplify forms, untangle the parts from the whole, and create dynamic paintings that reflect a powerful and personalized visual language. Students will learn a framework for observational painting that is independent of style, allowing for the discovery of their own artistic temperament and authentic interpretation of the natural world.

Some basic oil painting experience is recommended. Beginner to advanced painters are welcome.

$295 / 2-day workshop. Email lisa@phaetongallery.com to register.

ARTIST BIO:

Laura Wooten is a painter focused on our human connection to the landscape. Through a close observation of the natural world, with layers of memory and invention, she explores notions of time, place, rootedness, and reverie. She is engaged with painting the landscapes of her daily life: the fields of central Virginia, views to the distant Blue Ridge Mountains, the trees that mark the passing of time in her own backyard, and the immersive plants and flowers that spill from her garden beds and window ledge.

Laura earned her undergraduate degree in Art and Architecture at the University of Virginia and continued at UVA as an Aunspaugh Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in Studio Art before earning her MFA from American University. Her landscape paintings have been exhibited across the East Coast, including juried shows at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, The Painting Center in NYC, and the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Boston. Laura has frequently exhibited in Charlottesville, including solo exhibitions at Chroma Projects and Second Street Gallery. Laura has taught painting and drawing at the University of Virginia and Piedmont Community College, has served as a guest lecturer and critic for Design Thinking classes at the UVA School of Architecture, and has taught drawing as a mindfulness practice. She currently teaches perceptual landscape workshops out of her studio.