Visual Arts Workshop!

Practicing and exploring the difference between Western brushes and Eastern calligraphy brush techniques. Artists will learn how to create meaningful painting strokes employing Chinese and Western brush techniques. How to load a brush, why they’re different shapes, sizes and have different bristles. Bring all the brushes you have. Bamboo brushes, traditional ink and rice paper will be provided. Workshop will take place on August 23 from 2 PM – 4 PM. Enrollment by donation to ASK. This is a donated workshop by master teacher Fran Sutherland.

Fran Sutherland, a native New Yorker, is a painter, teacher, and restorer of historic homes. Strongly influenced by Eastern aesthetics, Fran’s creative paintings synthesize both Eastern and Western formats in multi-media works. The chosen media and techniques express personal ideas, which is especially evident in her textural compositions emphasizing oil and acrylic resist techniques. Fran’s most recent and unique works reflect the geophysical world, which we all experience in different ways. For this artist, walking, hiking, and motorless boating are meditative and energizing at the same time. To begin looking out or forward is the way Fran Sutherland psychologically and physically approaches the day and life. The Meditative Series depict the top piece that shows an Asian-styled, vertical composition, and the second bottom piece that recognizes what is at one’s feet and depicts the subject in a Western, rectangular format. The two paintings are then presented and suspended as one work of art. This new series of paintings explores and attempts to share the act of looking forward and where one is at the moment, or what is below as well as ahead.