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May 22, 2024

Plein Air Demonstration w/Fred Jackson

Wayne Art Center • 413 Maplewood Ave WaynePA  19087 Organized by Wayne Art Center

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My Process of Paintingwith Fred Jackson
Wednesday, May 225–7pm | Davenport Gallery$20 members | $25 non-members
Fred will discuss how he paints, the decisions he makes, the importance of showing a variety of different marks and how he likes to work with color.
ARTIST STATEMENT As a plein air painter, I enjoy exploring new places and discovering subjects that make a place unique. Generally, I like to choose complicated landscape subjects. I enjoy the exercise of simplifying the complexity, bringing attention to the important visual qualities that interest me. In a way it could be considered an abstraction of the subject, but I seek to portray the basic shape accurately. My painting process is not formulaic. I prefer to work intuitively and improvisational, sometimes with no predetermined result in mind. By painting this way, I hope to capture the fresh energy of the experience with expressive paint application. This is an important quality I strive for and what is so wonderful about plein air painting. Often it is the paintings which I have battled the hardest, destroyed and resurrected that become the most interesting.

When

May 22, 2024

5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Wednesday

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Co-Ed

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Wayne Art Center

413 Maplewood Ave WaynePA  19087

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