NORWICH, ENGLAND: October 19 — 23, 2015 will welcome up to 50 selected artists working in a variety of
mediums en plein air amid Norwich's vibrant cityscape during a timed competition.
The range is fantastic, and I think indicative of contemporary trends within the
medium: angular figures and aggressively colorful compositions in a New Objectivity vein from very young, non-German artists including Anna Navasardian (Armenian but New York - based, showing with Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich) and Pawel Sliwinski (Polish, showing with Beers Contemporary, London); representational works in thick, gestural impasto, both in Kim Dorland's grand,
en plein air style (Angell Gallery, Toronto), and in Bobby Mathieson's intimately scaled portraiture (Lyons Wier Gallery, New York); and abstraction both super-reductive (like Clare Grill, showing with FRED.GIAMPIETRO, New Haven) and cosmically colorful (Jennifer Lefort, showing with Patrick Mikhail Contemporary, Ottawa); plus every conceivable style in between.
Learn about materials and
mediums, about how to paint landscapes in the studio and
en plein air, how to choose a site, about simplification and massing, and more.