Course Title: Painting: Modernist Manifestos
Course description: This 4 week course will focus on the exploring the changes in painting at the height of the modernist movement. We will investigate several movements including surrealism and expressionism – how they came about and what drove the movements. Based on these understandings students will develop paintings in the style of these movements. Some previous painting experience is required.
Instructor: Deborah Thompson
Location: Oxygen Art Centre, 320 Vernon St
4 classes: April 3 – 24
4 – 7 pm Thursdays
Course fee: $150 + HST
Material fee: $15 + SEE MATERIALS LIST
TO REGISTER:
Or by Phone: 250-352-2821
Or drop by: Kootenay School of Arts. 606 Victoria Street, Nelson BC V1L 4K9
Course Title: Following a Line – figure drawing and painting **NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME
Course description: This weekend workshop will emphasis several approaches to understanding the human figure through drawing from a model these include the figure in motion, the figure as it occupies space and the expressive potential of the figure. Attention will be given to proportion, anatomy and perspective as it relates to the human figure. A variety of traditional and non-traditional media will be explored over the weekend.
Instructor: Deborah Thompson
Location: Oxygen Art Centre, 320 Vernon St
2 classes: April 5 & 6
12 – 4 pm Saturday & Sunday
Course fee: $100 + HST
Material fee: $35 + SEE MATERIALS LIST
MORE INFO: E. info@oxygenartcentre.org P. 250 352 6322
Bio
Deborah Thompson is a Canadian visual artist who resides in Nelson, B.C. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1984, a B.A. in Experiential Education from Prescott College and completed an MFA from the University of Montana in 1997 where she was awarded the Fell-Oskins Scholarship two years in a row for her studio work. She spent her final year at OCAD in Florence, Italy and has done research on medieval altar pieces in Holland. She has done residencies at the Vermont Studio Centre and the Banff Centre. She has exhibited throughout interior BC and recently in Vancouver. She is a founding member of the Oxygen Art Centre and has done some curatorial work as a curator for Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History. She has taught painting and colour theory at the University of Montana, Kootenay School of the Art and the Oxygen Art Center. She maintains a studio and exhibition practice. Her work is held in private and institutional collections in both Canada and the USA. In 2011, she received a Major Project Grant from the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance for the research and creation of Bird Woman a project that explores the nature of immanence through the life of Saint Teresa of Avila.
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