'Wild painting' art course in the Norvegian mountains
Contact:
Jan van Boeckel
Tel: +358 (0) 44 937 41 41
Email: polarstarcentre@yahoo.com
Web: www.naturearteducation.org
Specialty: Wild painting
Region: Jotunheimen mountains
Languages spoken: EN, NL, SE
Wildpainting in the Jotunheimen mountains
At this 5 day painting course, participants will draw and paint the rough and breathtaking landscape along lake Gjendebu in the Jotunheimen National Park in Norway. Teacher Jan van Boeckel, himself a landscape painter, will facilitate a form of painting which he calls "wild painting", connecting with nature in new and exciting ways, in an effort to see the world around us with fresh eyes. All participants will get personal instructions and feedback, in either English or Swedish.
This course includes delicious food and accommodation at Gjendebu hytta
To travel to Gjendebu, click here.
The painting medium that is used is acrylic paint. Participants bring their own painting easel, 50 x 70 cm board and brushes. Paint and painting paper will be provided and are part of the course fee.
Dates:
Course 1: June 1-5, 2009
Course 2: August 24-28, 2009
Price: xxx NOK
'Wild painting' art course in the Swedish gardens
Contact:
Jan van Boeckel
Tel: +358 (0) 44 937 41 41
Email: polarstarcentre@yahoo.com
Web: www.naturearteducation.org
Specialty: Wild painting
Region: Ockelbo Municipality in Gävleborg County, in east central Sweden
Language spoken: EN, NL, SE
Garden painting course at Wij Trädgårdar / The magic colours of Monet
Early in the 20th century French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry wrote, “to see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.” Painter Claude Monet gave a similar advice to art students: “Whenever you go out to paint try to forget what objects you have in front of you – a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, here is a little squeeze of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just like it looks to you, the exact colour and shape, until it gives your own naïve impression of the scene before you.” Such a ‘being in the moment’ provides endless possibilities for artistic expression, as his contemporary Paul Cézanne affirmed: “The same object seen from a different angle, gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending more to the right or left.”
At this 5 day painting course, participants will be trying to do this, painting amongst the patches of gardens that the students in the Trädgårdsmästereprogrammet at Wij Trädgårdar in Ockelbo, Sweden, have designed.
All participants will get personal instructions and feedback from the landscape painter and teacher Jan van Boeckel, in either English or Swedish.
This course includes delicious local food, sometimes in the restaurant, at times ‘in the field’. The painting media that are used are oil and acrylic paint. Paint and painting paper will be provided and are part of the course fee.
Dates:
Course 1: September 7-11, 2009
Course 2: September 14-18, 2009
Price: SEK xxx (accommodation and food included)