Notes from Rome and Siena, Italy

Critique with Stuart Shils at the Certosa
 
I’d like to offer a glimpse into my recent trip to Rome for a couple of weeks as well as my 4 weeks at the Certosa
Jerusalem Studio School Summer Art Program in Siena, Italy. Hopefully I will avoid boring anyone by having this post be less of a travelogue [...]

Back from Italy, articles will resume shortly

For anyone wondering what might be going on from the lack of activity on this blog for the past few weeks. I just got back from six weeks in Italy, I initially planned on writing articles from Italy but there were technical issues that made that impossible and was also too distracted by all the [...]

Oil and Water at Fred Bancroft and Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects

 
Oil and Water at Fred Bancroft and Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects
By Neil Plotkin with Jennifer Gilchrist
 
The received wisdom in Western Art is that painting has continuously and inevitably evolved away from representation towards a higher and more pure abstract style. In line with this belief is the assumption that artists only worked in one [...]

Lennart Anderson at JSS Certosa Summer Program in Italy

Lennart Anderson – ( title and date unknown) Portrait
 
This is old news for some readers here but the renowned painter, Lennart Anderson will be a special Guest Artist at the JSS at the Certosa Summer Program in Italy this year. From the JSS Italy program blog,
“The former teacher of several generations of artists [...]

Join the Forum and win a chance to get the Ballycastle DVD

Ballycastle A DVD telling the story of Stuart Shils painting in Ballycastle Ireland.
As I have mentioned before I’ve been thinking of ways to help the Painting Perception’s forum grow into a useful community for painters where people can start and discuss topics on their own, share knowledge, work, events, links, videos and ask questions. [...]

More thoughts on new directions for Painting Perceptions

Big Daddy, Corot, Hard at Work
It’s been over a year since I started this blog and overall I’m very pleased by being able to bring more attention to contemporary representational and perceptual painting. Since the recent redesign of this site I’ve been thinking of new ways to improve the site as well as improving my [...]

The Jerusalem Studio School Summer Program in Italy

I recently paid my deposit to the JSS summer program in Italy this summer which runs from July 18 – August 29, 2010. The location, near Sienna, looks absolutely fantastic, in a large complex that is a 14th century monastery converted into a conference center run by the University of Siena. I choose to [...]

Philip Koch at the Clymer Museum of Art in Washington

Philip Koch is a fantastic painter who posts comments here regularly and runs a terrific blog. I had another post about his work several months ago that you can read here. I thought I’d mention his new show at the Clymer Museum of Art Ellensburg, WA January 8 – March 27, 2010 in [...]

Stuart Shils – selected paintings at Coleman Bancroft

January 28 – February 27 2010
Coleman Bancroft LLC 35 East 67th Street, 4th flr NYC
Sorry but I have no detailed information on this upcoming show of Stuart Shils paintings. If you live nearby please check it out and let us know your thoughts. A website doesn’t yet seem available for this show. You can see [...]

News Snippets

For anyone who might be interested I’d like to share some news about some ongoing and upcoming happenings with this blog and some other related blogs that should be of interest to readers here.
A frequent commenter here to Painting Perceptions, is the painter Rebecca Harp who currently lives in Israel working with the Jerusalem Studio [...]

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