Inspired by the glorious abundance of flowers in bloom, we will jump right in! Our focus will be on responding directly to nature and producing a quantity of work.

Mornings will be dedicated to producing several experimental starts to paintings with the support of individual instruction and collegial encouragement, including a cheering team.

We will break for lunch and come back at 1pm for lecture and demonstration focused on responding directly from nature, large abstract decisions, and color harmony. Demonstrations will be in oil though you are welcome to work in any painting medium. All levels welcome.

We will be teaming up with local flower farmers including Bewitching Blooms in Far Hills, NJ. It will be a riot of gorgeous flowers!!!

It will be very fun!

Please come fully prepared to work with plenty of surfaces. Materials list for oil painting is available.

June 1-4 (Monday-Thursday) Enrollment limited to 12.

9AM- 3 PM

$850

A native of Poughkeepsie NY, Christine received an A.B. in  English from Bryn Mawr College in 1991.  She then moved to downtown Philadelphia to earn a Certificate in Painting and Printmaking from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.  There she was awarded a Louis S. Ware Memorial Scholarship for European Travel.  While Artist-in-Residence at the Fleisher Art Memorial from 1997 to 2002, she began teaching and studied at the Barnes Foundation.  In 2003 she moved to Brooklyn NY, where she earned a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at Brooklyn College.  In November 2023, Christine did an Artist Residency at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy. With the exception of 2020 when she sheltered-in-place in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Christine lives and works in Brooklyn throughout the year and spends summers painting in Maine.