Sharon Carson
www.SharonCarson.com Interpreting the Spring Landscape
April 3 – 6, 2008
Medium: Oil
Level: All Levels
Studio Class

Sharon Carson’s award-winning paintings embody dynamic composition, lively brushwork and expressive color.

This indoor workshop will focus on creative interpretation of the Spring landscape. You’ll begin with creative exercises from still life setups, emphasizing the similarities with landscape. Explore how simplifying, exaggerating, creative color, rhythm, shapes and line work can be used to create a more personally expressive painting. You’ll then apply these principles to landscape painting. You’ll develop the confidence to make artistic choices that suit your personal vision.

Bring photographs of the spring landscape for reference. If the weather permits, students have the option of painting on the grounds at the inn.

Sharon Carson’s Bio:

Sharon Carson has been painting and teaching for more than 30 years. Sharon works in oils, watercolors, and acrylics. In any medium, Sharon places great importance on creative expression.

Her paintings have been accepted into several juried national shows including those sponsored by The Salmagundi Club, Academic Artists, Knickerbocker Artists, Hudson Valley Artists, the National Academy of Design, and Southern Vermont Arts Center. Her professional affiliations have included Academic Artists, and The Copley Society of Boston, Rockport Art Association, and North Shore Arts Association.

Sharon was one of only a few living Cape Ann artists selected to show their work in the historic exhibition “The Legacy of Cape Ann” held at the Canton Art Institute in Canton, Ohio. “The Legacy of Cape Ann” was a major exhibition for the museum, displaying historic paintings on-loan from several museums and private collections, along with work by invited contemporary artists, to visually represent more than 100 years of painting on Cape Ann.

Sharon’s paintings were included in the exhibition “Winter Comes to Rockport” held at the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, Massachusetts. Her winter scenes were shown alongside the museum’s collection of paintings by American master Aldro T. Hibbard (1886-1972). She was also invited to participate in a show at The Copley Society of Boston of member artists who had been featured in “American Artist” magazine. The art association in Old Lyme, Connecticut included her work in its invitational exhibition “Cape Ann Masters.” And the Attleboro Museum displayed one of Sharon’s paintings in its invitational exhibition “New England Impressions, Painting from Life.” Sharon was selected for an artist residency program sponsored by Les Amis de la Grande Vigne in Dinan, France and one of her paintings is now included in the museum’s permanent collection. Her paintings have also been included in invitational or juried shows at Symphony Hall in Boston; Gordon College in Wenham, MA; Boston Design Center; The Federal Reserve Bank in Boston, The Copley Society of Boston, Rockport Art Association and North Shore Art Association.

Sharon was featured in the November 1989 issue of “American Artist” magazine.

In 2004, Sharon and her husband Ed moved to the Berkshire region in western Massachusetts. They now live in Eclipse Mill Artist Lofts, a former textile mill that was converted to live/work lofts for artists.