An Abstract Retreat with Wayne Boucher

instructor  -  wayne boucher

July 11, 12, 13, 14

 time -9am - 4pm

Course cost - $400

Class size - 9

experience level

Beginner to Advanced

course description

What is an Abstract Artist's Retreat? it is a great way to enable artists to innovate in new ways. It is a canvas where artist's connect, inspire and educate each other. They explore ideas through collective thinking to come up with new ideas and approaches to their art.

A four day retreat with Wayne Boucher is the perfect way to discover Wayne and how he creates his abstract world. Working with Wayne is a rare opportunity to enter into the methods and connections that he uses to express his spirit and the emotional world around him. He will help you begin your journey of discovering the essence of your emotional and spiritual landscape and translating it into abstraction. He will guide you through the techniques that will help you trust your instincts and sensibilities so that you can capture that translation in paint.

The objective of the workshop, through preliminary explorations and studies is to create a responsive dialogue between the artist and their paintings. The elements of a painting are edited, considered, and justified only if they are necessary to accomplish what the artist's expression and sensibility wish to signify.

The number of students attending the retreat is small to ensure each student has a full one on one relationship with Wayne.

Course Details

The purpose of the course is to have the artists express an idea through a painting medium. The workshop involves approaches to painting and presentation, use of materials, tools, critical thinking, manners and methods of expression and signification, editing, and processes of application in formulating meaning through paint.

The workshop will cover all painting mediums, and will focus on the use of water base paint, acrylic paint, and oil paint and pigment sticks. Artist participants should use art materials they are familiar with. Artists will use 4 to 5 canvases in either rectangle or square formats, or a combination of both.

Students will need to bring the following:

• A sketchbook or journal for note taking.
• If participants wish to use oil sticks, they may want to contact Ron Hayes at ArtCan in Canning, NS at [email protected] who sells R and F oil sticks in the 38ml small pigment stick size.
• Paints & Colour Palette:
  titanium white, cadmium red middle, cadmium light, pthalo or ultramarine blue, and green, such as pthalo green. You can also order online, just google – R and F pigment sticks.
• Participants are requested to bring 6 to 10 canvases, and drawing papers to the workshop.
  Canvas size : 11″ x 14″ and/or 16″ x 20″ & at least 2 square 16″ x16″.
• Easels are not necessary, but useful if you are accustomed to using one.

about the instructor

Wayne was the recipient of the 2006 Nova Scotia Portia White Award for excellence, innovation, and expression in the arts. The recipient of numerous grants from provincial and federal agencies including a Canada Council Established Artist Grant in 2001, other key professional successes include winning the 2004 juried competition to execute the mural entitled Réveil for the new Interpretation Centre at Grand-Pré National Historic Site. Boucher became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy in 2002. In 2012, “Drowning in Colour" click here was the first comprehensive documentary to be made about the Art of Wayne Boucher, and was directed and edited by Alan Collins. In 2014, three of his paintings were selected in a Foreign Affairs Canada design competition for meeting room carpets in the redecorated Nova Scotia Room, Pacific Room, and a Reception area at Canada House, London, UK.

Contact the artist

Website: www.wayneboucher.ca
Email: [email protected]

For more information or to register contact Art lab

email - click here

telephone - 902-254-2972

Cancellation Policy
If for any reason the participant wishes to cancel prior to two weeks before the commencement of the course, the full fee minus a 10% service fee will be refunded. Please note that there will be no refunds if the participant cancels within two weeks of the commencement of the course.