November 14, November 19 & 20
Lessons from Bonnard. Delve into Pierre Bonnard's distinctive approach to color and composition, learning to capture familiar spaces' warmth and personal touch. The workshop will guide you in transforming photographs and studies of your favorite room into a captivating work of art, echoing Bonnard's process and methodology of blending rich color and atmospheric light. This unique workshop invites you to explore Bonnard's masterful depiction of intimate interiors and vibrant domestic scenes.
We will begin with a field trip to the VMFA in Richmond on Thursday, November 14, with a 2:00 pm departure from Phaeton Gallery (transportation provided). Laura, a thoughtful follower and student of Pierre Bonnard's work, will offer a walkthrough of the VMFA's Bonnard collection followed by an early dinner and a 6:30 - 7:30 lecture with Dr. George Shackelford, Deputy Director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and author of Bonnard's Worlds.
Working independently at home, students will document a curated interior scene of their own personal space through sketches and photos. On November 19 and 20, students will work with Laura in the Phaeton Gallery Studio, developing one interior composition in oil on canvas. We will work from our prepared source materials, learning to combine observation, memory, and invention. Formal elements of color, composition, space, and perspective will be explored, alongside the rich expressive possibilities of the Post-Impressionist ideology.
“Color was Bonnard’s arbitrator of emotion but it was also his arbitrator of space. For years, Bonnard painted the rooms of his childhood home; later, after he had married de Méligny, he painted the rooms of their shared home in Le Cannet in the South of France. These rooms were “analogues of human experience.”
Excerpt from “You’ll Never Know Yourself: Bonnard and the Color of Memory” (The Paris Review)
By Cody Delistraty, March 13, 2019
The fees for this workshop include a copy of Lucy Whalen's "Beyond Vision," as Laura will have some reading 'homework 'over the weekend of the 15th.
FULL with waitlist. Please email lisa@phaetongallery.com for more information.