This Thursday at 4pm at the Chapel Arts Center at Saint Anselm College. I will be discussing and demonstrating , the techniques of traditional landscape. I will walk through the process of transitioning from the Dead Color Under-painting to the final Glazing and Scumbling.
In this demo specifically I will be approaching “How to paint a Nocturnal Landscape- a Moon Scene”. It should be a wonderful event!
All Are Welcome!
Thursday , Oct. 25th at 4pm
at the Chapel Arts Center
Saint Anselm college
The Glimmer of Light: A New Exhibition of Lauren Sansaricq’s Landscape Paintings at Saint Anselm College
September 15, 2012 by Hawthorne Fine Art
“Hawthorne Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of Lauren Sansaricq’s landscape paintings at the Alva de Mars Megan Chapel Art Center at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. The Glimmer of Light: Landscape Paintings by Lauren Sansaricq will run from September 28 to December 6, 2012, and an opening reception for the exhibition will be held on Thursday, September 27 from 6:00 to 8:00pm.
The Chapel Art Center has recently featured examples of American landscape painting, as well as local and emerging artists. A native of Columbia County, New York, Lauren Sansaricq (b.1990) trained with Thomas Locker (1937–2012), a celebrated landscape painter and children’s book author/illustrator, in the traditional manner of the Hudson River School. Sansaricq’s work captures a similar sense of wonder experienced by the nineteenth century landscape painters working primarily in New York’s Catskill Mountain region. As Jennifer Krieger explains, “Lauren is a tireless technician who can hone in on the most subtle details of nature within its grandest views. She demonstrates an artistic prowess and commitment to faithful design which is not only rare for her age but also uncommon for the age in which we live.” Like the first generation of Hudson River School painters, Sansaricq has also proven herself to be a true artist-explorer. She has broadened the scope of her work to include locations outside the Hudson Valley, including the White Mountains of New Hampshire and locations in France and Italy.
In conjunction with this special exhibition, numerous special events have been planned. David Dearinger, Ph.D., Susan Morse Hilles Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at The Boston Athenaeum, will present “The Hudson River School: An Introduction” on Thursday, November 8 at 4:00pm. This lecture will provide a scholar’s insight into the significance of America’s first indigenous art movement, offering an important supplement to Ms. Sansaricq’s meditative and technically rigorous paintings.
Additionally, Fr. MacLellan will be leading a director’s tour of the exhibition at 1:00pm on Saturday, October 20. On Thursday, October 25 at 4:00pm, Ms. Sansaricq will discuss the subject matter and technical practice that ties her work to historic American landscape painting, yet offers a fresh look at our landscape today. Lastly, a special music performance will feature American Romantic compositions performed by acclaimed pianist Alpin Hong on Friday, November 30 at 7:30pm.
Since the opening of Nature’s Poetry, held at Hawthorne Fine Art last winter, Lauren has completed her training at the Grand Central Academy in NYC. We’re excited for this next step in Lauren’s career and will be producing an exhibition catalogue for The Glimmer of Light illustrating her paintings. A PDF of the Nature’s Poetry catalogue is available on our website.
For further information about this exhibition and the related special events, please visit www.anselm.edu/chapelart.”
The genesis of landscape painting as an art onto itself initially developed from the great painter, Claude Lorrain. Other artists who helped spear head this new form of classical art were Poussin and Carracci. Landscape painting has always been a part of art, yet mostly before Carracci and Claude , landscape was seen as more of a background for figure painting. As landscape painting progressed within history the size of the figures in the landscape became smaller and eventually vanished. To me the figure in landscape painting is a crucial thing, no matter how large or small. I believe the figure in the landscape helps the viewer to relate to the scene emotionally. It can also be an interesting devise, for example a smaller figure can make the landscape feel more epic.
For example in the two paintings above, both depict the same mountains (North Carter and Imp, in NH), but the figure in both of them is used in different ways. The painting on top has more a feeling intimacy, gazing at the view from under the bow of a tree. Where as in the painting below, the figure is much smaller which gives the mountain and the whole space more a feeling of grandeur.
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This past summer I was painting at the top of Kaaterskill Falls. This spot to me is one of the most beautiful locations in all the Catskills Mts. Kaaterskill Falls also has a rich history. The painters of the hudson river school loved this location and produced many paintings of this area. Seen below is Thomas Cole’s “Top of Kaaterskill Falls” 1826:
So I set out to follow in their footsteps and paint this magical place. My plan was to do studies of the area including a small painting outdoors , then bring it all back to the studio and do a much larger studio painting. Below is my outdoor painting:
….and here I am working on the larger version (30 x 40 inches)!
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