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Monhegan
Island's dramatic landscape provides an inspiring reference. Located ten miles off the Maine coast, the tiny island furnishes
an unusual array of visual stimulation. On one side are tall cliffs,
the highest on the New England coast. On the other side is a tranquil
meadow sloping down to a picturesque harbor area featuring classic
New England architecture. In the center are dense pine forests.
Seventeen miles of footpaths meander throughout the terrain. There
are very few vehicles, no streetlights, and only in the past decade
did electricity come to the island. Monhegan has a long and illustrious
history as a retreat for artists (it is a mecca for bird watchers
as well). The island's landscape has served as subject matter for
such luminaries as Rockwell Kent, George Bellows, Robert Henri,
Fairfield Porter, and the Wyeths (who still own a home on the island).
You won't find a more stimulating place to work!
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"I
have taken many workshops over the years and have never had an instructor
that came near Steve's overall knowledge of art and design and demonstrated
such humble dedication to the students in his workshop. The workshop
enabled me to create satisfying abstractions of the landscape. As
a result of Steve's coaching, I was able to identify the underlying
structure of the landscape and feel its rhythm. These principles
strengthened my compositions and will guide my work f or the coming
year."
-- Jean Jackson, West Lafayette, Indiana
"I
want to thank you both from the bottom of my heart. You
have set me free in so many ways. So many things that I knew
but could not verbalize, but you did, and things just fit into place.
-- Betty Slade,
Pagosa Springs, Colorado
"The
experience for me, artistically, went beyond any expectations I
had going in. By week's end, the ways in which I was seeing things
changed...The intimacy of the island and the members of the group
was simply liberating!"
-- Holly Weber, Virginia Beach, Virginia
"The
five-day artists' working retreat on Monhegan Island provides the
serious artist striving to find or enhance one's poetic voice with
the ideal context for artistic maturation. Monhegan is a tiny island;
its village is frozen in time: no fast-food restaurants, no shopping
malls, no TV, no phones to speak of. You are happily insulated from
the infringe ments of daily living on your art...totally immersed
in art…free for thinking, contemplating, absorbing, experimenting,
assimilating, and painting."
-- Daniel Wozniak, Ormond Beach, Florida
"I've
never experience a workshop so rewarding and so unique. There wasn't
a soul in the group who wasn't excited by the challenges and marveling
at the personal growth that Steve gently coaxed out of us.
-- Lenore Barnett, Hendersonville,
North Carolina
"I learned
that I could respond to the landscape reference, paint landscapes
in an abstract manner, and be authentic. I was overwhelmed in a
positive way with the shapes that surrounded me – all I had to do
was turn my head and there was another painting waiting to be painted.
The blank canvas became less intimidating than it had been before."
-- Charlene Thomas, Longwood, Florida
"On
Monhegan, its like Mother Nature is in your face. The rocks, the
cliffs, the wind, the surf shooting up 20 feet all around you, brings
out basic primal urges, fear, awe. It's a rush and the paintings
reflect it. Now, when I go outside to paint, I feel less like an
observer and more a part of nature."
-- Jim Cassidy, Ormond Beach, Florida
"The
workshop can't be described as the best workshop I've taken--it's
way beyond that. It's unique in that Steve pushes us in his gentle
way to search, through our art, for ourselves." -- Pat Wellborn, Hendersonville North Carolina
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