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  • Tuesday, Thursday & Friday, June 9, 11 & 12, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Building Color & Form: Spring Flowers in Colored Pencil

    In this three-day Massachusetts Horticultural Society workshop on June 9, 11, & 12 from 10 – 2 with award-winning botanical artist, Alice Rosa, students will learn how to approach botanical subjects using colored pencils. We will begin with observation and drawing, focusing on how to study a plant and translate its structure onto paper. From there, we will work through the process of adding color, studying color layering and building it gradually while paying attention to subtle shifts in tone and hue. The course is designed to be an accessible introduction, allowing students to experiment, slow down, and become familiar with the medium. Some experience with drawing and the basics of botanical art will be helpful, though no prior experience with colored pencil is required.

    Alice Rosa is a Fellow of the Society of Botanical Artists in London and a Professional Member of the Copley Society of Art in Boston, MA. She graduated with distinction from the Distance Learning Diploma Course of the Society of Botanical Artists. She is a studio artist at the Umbrella Arts Center in Concord, MA.

    Alice was born and raised in Italy. She has a degree in foreign languages and literature from the University of Verona. She also holds a degree in art conservation from IVBC in Venice, where she specialized in the restoration of polychrome wood sculptures and paintings on panel. She currently lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

    $250 for MHS members, $290 for nonmembers. For complete supply list, and to register, visit https://www.cognitoforms.com/MassachusettsHorticulturalSociety/_26060926BAC143BuildingColorAndFormSpringFlowersInColoredPencil

  • Thursday, September 10 – Sunday, October 4 – Nature Present

    The Copley Society of Art presents an exhibit in the Upper Gallery opening Thursday, September 10 through Sunday, October 4 by artist Kate Taylor entitled Nature Present. Kate Taylor is a fine artist based in Toronto, specializing in abstract landscapes. With a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Western Ontario, Kate is committed to capturing color and energy in her mixed media acrylic paintings. She often works with an Epoxy coating to increase the play of light and reflection. The CoSo gallery is located at 158 Newbury Street.  Visit www.copleysociety.org for hours of operation.

  • Thursday, November 29, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Holiday Wine Tasting

    The Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay’s Wine Tasting Group invites you to a Holiday Wine Tasting at The Copley Society of Art: Holiday Small Works Exhibition, 158 Newbury Street, on Thursday, November 29,  from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Discover the art of fine wine surrounded by fine art.  Founded in 1879, The Copley Society of Art is the oldest non-profit art association in the United States, with over 500 living artist members: painters, photographers and sculptors.  To reserve, send a check payable to NABB by November 26 for $30 per person to Linda Morgan, 122 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02116.  If you are bringing guests, please include their names when you send in your check, since names will be held at the door.

  • Tuesdays, September 6 & 13, and Thursdays, September 8 & 15, 9:30 am – 2:30 pm – Harvest Time at the Farm

    In this four day seminar, September 6, 8, 13 and 15, taught on location at the Natick Community Organic Farm, 117 Eliot Street, Natick, and in the studio in nearby South Natick, learn to paint economic plants grown locally.  Take your observations from the farm’s fields back to the studio to portray the plants in drybrush watercolor.  Sarah Roche’s expert instruction will fine tune your drawings to be botanically accurate and expand your watercolor skills to capture textures and tones and the vibrant colors of fruits, vegetables, and foliage. Your paintings will look good enough to eat.   Watercolor and drawing experience required. Foundations or equivalent course required. Work at your own skill level in this class for advanced beginners to experienced watercolor artists, sponsored by the Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture.  WCFH members $250, non-members $300 – to register, log on to www.wellesley.edu/WCFH, or call 781-283-3094.

    sarah

  • Monday, May 3, 5:00 pm – The Friends of the Public Garden 40th Anniversary Annual Meeting

    The Friends of the Public Garden cordially invites you to its 40th Anniversary Annual Meeting on Monday, May 3, beginning at 5:00 pm at First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street.  The featured speaker will be The Honorable Thomas M. Menino, Mayor of Boston.  Celebrate with The Friends as His Honor declares May 3 Friends of the Public Garden Day in Boston.  RSVP by April 28 to 617-267-7366, or email friends@harronandassociates.com.  Painting below by T.A. Charron, from Copley Society’s Fresh Paint 2006.

    http://www.copleysociety.org/.library/Charron_T_A_SwanBoat.U4697a8a5bbed5.jpg

  • Saturday, September 5, 5 – 7 pm – The Lure of Trees

    Fruitlands Museum, at 102 Prospect Hill Road, Harvard, Massachusetts, is proud to present an exhibit by Artist-in-Residence Zsuzsanna Szegedi based on her season-long study of Fruitlands’ trees. For Szegedi, working on “The Lure of Trees” has provided a special opportunity to blend her European and American training in Fruitlands’ unique natural environment.

    Inspired by nature and our attachment to the land, her work steps beyond the straightforward representation of our environment and explores the complexity of our relationship to it.

    Hungarian-born artist Zsuzsanna Szegedi holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art. Her paintings can be regularly seen at the Copley Society of Art in Boston. She is the recipient of a Puffin Foundation artist grant and her latest paintings were sponsored by the Gamblin Artist Colors Co.

    The Lure of Trees exhibit runs September 6 – November 15, 2009. For directions and additional information, log on to www.fruitlands.org.

    Zsuzsi

  • Thursday, May 7, 6-7:30 – Opening Reception, “The Poetry of a Chinese Watercolor Spring”

    Jing Hua’s watercolor painting garnered high acclaim in her last exhibit at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Massachusetts.  Jing Hua uses traditional Chinese brush painting techniques to paint landscapes, birds and flowers, and figures in either detail or free style.  Her watercolors move between classic and contemporary Chinese concepts.  Ms. Dalia’s works reflect her intensive training that began at the age of nine with her father, the prominent Chinese artist and calligraphy master Chiang Kai-shek’s son, Chiang Ching-guo, the President of the Republic of China.  Her studying continued under some of China’s most outstanding watercolorists. She earned a degree from the National Taiwan Normal University and went on to graduate work in Hawaii.  She has exhibited at galleries across the country including the Soho Art Museum, The Copley Society, and the Currier Museum.  Meet the artist at the opening reception, which will offer a cash bar and light refreshments.  Free and open to the public.  For more information call 508-869-6111, or log on to www.towerhillbg.org.  The exhibit will run from May 5 – June 14, 2009.