This workshop has been cancelled.

Located in the stunning alps of the South Island in New Zealand, visitors from around the world are drawn to the Wanaka region by its outstanding natural beauty. This amazing scenery will inform our paintings this week with Pamela Caughey in her Powerful Design and Personal Color workshop.

This workshop is for beginner through advanced artists who would like to learn how to create “their best art” through powerful design and personal color. These techniques can be used by artists wanting to learn how to paint using cold wax, encaustics, acrylics and oil media.

Students will learn how to mix and apply a wide range of colors, grays, and glazes through short, exploratory exercises.

Pamela will take you through the Nine Stages of Creativity to discover your personal voice. You will start out as a child, playing, then grow into the rebellious teenage stage of messiness and confusion, and finally, the adult stage where you will make your final edits to your painting.

Through demonstrations, presentations, and working one on one, each student will be able to approach a painting at any stage of development and understand the “when” and “how” to pull their paintings together to create art they “love.”

The majority of workshop time will be devoted to painting, with helpful demos and exercises to nurture the creative artist within. There will also be time for individual critique and discussion of each student’s personal artistic goals and progress.

ITINERARY

Day 1, Oct. 18. We will meet at 9:30 am at the Pembrook Pavilion to begin our day with Pamela. After settling in, introducing ourselves, off we will go with exercises with Pam. We will break for lunch (on your own) at 12:30 and return at 1:45. We will continue working this afternoon and finish up around 4:30-5:00. Dinner tonight will be together at a nearby restaurant.

Days 2-4, Oct. 19-21 The schedules are the same, with all meals on your own.

Day 5, Oct. 22. We will meet at 9:30 am for our final day together. We will finish our paintings this morning, break for lunch and then put any final touches on our work after we return. Then we will clean up and have our show and tell, sharing our work from this week. The workshop will be over at 4:30 and then you can start your holiday weekend!

THIS ESCAPE INCLUDES

• Five days of instruction by Pamela

• Welcome dinner

• Some art supplies

• A new art tribe

Price: US$1400, limited to 12 people

A US$600 non refundable deposit is due upon registration with the final payment due June 1, 2019

Price does not include airfare to/New Zealand. Please do not make your plane reservations until notified.

AIRPORT

The nearest airport is the Queenstown Airport located in Frankton, Otago, New Zealand. The Airport code is: ZQN.

Driving from the airport: The route that takes you from Queenstown to Wanaka via the Crown Range is approximately 67 km (42 mi) long, which should take close to 1 hour to drive. You can catch a bus that leaves 5 times daily that departs Queenstown Airport and arrives in Wanaka. The journey takes approximately 1h 35m and costs $14US.

LOCATION

Class will be held at the Pembroke Pavilion Wanaka at McDougall Street

A supply list will be provided at time of registration.

We will provide:

• Latex gloves

• Oil paints: basic colors of white, black, red, yellow, and blue

• Baby Wipes (for cleanup)

• Baby Oil (for cleanup)

• Newsprint

Pamela Caughey grew up in Wisconsin, where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from UW-Madison in 1983. After moving with her family to Hamilton, MT in 1986, she began her serious study of art, and in 2010 received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Montana School of Art. She works in many media, with special interest in cold wax/oil, encaustic, mixed media and acrylic. Her work is in the permanent collection of several museums (Missoula Art Museum, Holter Museum of Art, Nicolaysen Museum of Art) and public buildings nationally and internationally and her work appears in the newly published book by Rebecca Crowell and Jerry McLaughlin, “Cold Wax Medium: Techniques, Concepts, Conversations.” After teaching foundations courses at the University of Montana, Bitterroot College (Hamilton, Montana), she is now a full time studio artist and teaches workshops from her Hamilton, Montana studio, throughout the country and abroad.

This event has been cancelled due to the Covid epidemic. We want to thank the teachers and participants in their support of the event. We wish you good health as you navigate this very fragile time.

IslandWood on beautiful Bainbridge Island, WA will be the site for twelve very talented artists gathering in this wooded 250-acre site to teach mixed media for a 4-day mixed media Art Escape. From left to right, Bridgette Guerzon-Mills, Carla Sonheim, Christina Romeo, Cori Dantini, Graceann Warn, Lendon Noe, Morgan Brig, Leslie West, Raymond Papka, Shannon Weber, Tory Brokenshire and Pamela Caughey.

For more information and to register, visit the Islandwood Art Escape website here. We hope to see you in the Pacific Northwest August 12-16, 2020.

Please note, as of 3/24, this workshop is still taking place. We are monitoring all advisories and if this changes, we will immediately notify everyone as to the status. Thank you and please stay healthy.

Questions? Please contact us.