Painting Perceptions

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Dean Fisher 2025 Workshops at the Tenuta di Spannocchia in Tuscany, Italy

Course dates are:

September 8 – September 16, 2025

September 16 – September 23, 2025

Landscape Painting Workshop

Dean Fisher’s workshop is now accepting registration for September workshops at the Tenuta di Spannocchia in Tuscany, Italy. Paint this stunning, magical landscape with brilliant, personalized instruction by the renowned painter Dean Fisher.

  • This will be a 7-day intensive landscape painting workshop based in the magnificent Tuscan countryside in the mesmerizing setting of the Tenuta di Spannocchia, perfectly suited for the plein air painter. The hilly landscape around the villa has enough subject matter for many lifetimes of painting!
  • There will be 2 sessions of seven days for each session.
  • A minimum of eight hours of personalized instruction is provided daily, coupled with full days of hands-on painting.
  • Three nighttime portrait painting sessions per week from live models.
  • Bus transportation from Florence to Spannocchia and back again (about an hour’s ride).
  • 13.5 miles north of Spannocchia is Siena, known for its rich cultural heritage and arts, such as the Santa Maria della Scala, Palazzo Pubblico, and Museo Civico, home to many of the most important Sienese paintings.
  • 44 miles north of Spannocchia is Florence, perhaps the heart of Italy’s greatest art treasures.
  • Please see the testimonials page (linked here) from former students to read firsthand accounts of their experience working with me as well as examples of the work made at this location.

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Dean Fisher Workshop

Andrew Wykes

Landscape Drawing/Painting Workshop:
The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland

15 – 23 October 2025
A unique opportunity to work at the prestigious Ballinglen Arts Foundation. for a select group of nine artists to spend nine days in rural Ireland drawing and painting. With artist Andrew Wykes.
The workshop is interned for all levels, although if beginning, some experience is desirable. This course is for drawing materials and acrylic paint only. Andrew Wykes will provide individualised instruction and criticism. Plein aire excursions and varied in-side studio methods, discussions, and presentations will provide the format for an intensive, exciting learning experience. The focus is on the landscape and sea of this part of North Mayo by experiencing first-hand our reaction to the magic of the place and its rich visual and atmospheric milieu.Wykes emphasises the importance of drawing as a foundation for painting. His teaching is not concerned with embellishing a safe stereo-typical style but with improving students’ understanding of the formal elements, shape, surface, space form and analogy. There will be ample opportunity to discuss each other’s work and take a second in-depth look at other diverse international painters throughout history, enriching our understanding.

The class will alternate between the studio and on-location. The emphasis will be outside but weather-dependent. The course is structured with some flexibility, and presented here is the format I will follow, which has been a success for students in previous workshops.

Biography

Andrew Wykes was born in the UK, just outside of London. He studied at Richmond upon Thames College and Epsom School of Art and Design, where he received his undergraduate qualifications in fine art. He completed his graduate studies at American University in Washington, DC, where he received his MFA in painting. He has taught art for forty years in schools and universities in the UK, Belgium, and the US. He is an Emeritus Professor of Painting from Hamline University in St Paul, where in 2011, he was awarded the Agnes Hulburd Conger Prize for Excellence in the Humanities.

Andrew has shown his work nationally and internationally in London and New York. His work is included in many private and public collections. He has been a recipient of five Minnesota State Arts Board Initiative Grants. In 2009, he was awarded a fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Mayo, Ireland, where he teaches workshops during the year. Andrew is one of the four featured artists in the celebrated feature-length film ‘Painting the Place Between’, a documentary film by Kristen Lowe, that follows the lives and ideas of four painters. He has also appeared on Sky Televisions Landscape Artist of the Year in 2021. In 2024, Andrew was selected for the Project Space Award from The Kolman & Reeb Gallery in Minneapolis. Current Gallery Representation:
Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. USA
Tregony Contemporary, Cornwall, UK