Vermont Artist Charlie Hunter Offers 3-Day Workshop At CFSOTA
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Clifton Forge School of the Arts will host Vermont artist
Charlie Hunter for a three-day weekend painting workshop from April 27 to April 29, that will concentrate on the outdoors in the Alleghany Highlands.
Charlie Hunter is an accomplished plein air and studio painter. He has created the C&O Historical Society art prints for the last five years, based on classic 20th Century American advertising art. And recently his paintings featuring a distinctively muted, earth-toned palette, have started to receive national notice. His work is featured in the Fall OUTDOOR PAINTER magazine
and he exhibits in galleries across the United States. A selection of his work can be viewed at www.hunter-studio.com.
The artist grew up in a small town with railroads permeating
the landscape and the lore. “I’d walk home from school along the branch line rails of the Boston & Main, and read the names and slogans on the box cars that would roll by, things like “The Nickel Plate Road” and “Santa Fe All The Way.” He imbues the architecture and machinery of the railroad car with the stamp of unmistakable nostalgia. In all his works, even and houses and the trees bear the stamp of familiarity.
Mr. Hunter is a graduate of Yale University with a BA in Art. He studied with William Bailey, Vernie Chaet, Bot Reed, Alvin Eisenmann and in 2009 was invited to join the vaunted and prestigious Putney Painters group. He has exhibited throughout Vermont and in Arizona in solo, two-man and group shows and is featured in many private collections in the United States.
A growing coterie of reviewers has published comments about Mr. Hunter’s work. “Hunter’s lines of perspective are so perfect that it’s surprising to learn he paints en plein air. A viewer’s first thought may be: ‘These have got to come from slides. ‘ But Hunter is just that good – really a master landscapist.”
Hunter describes his palette as consisting of “warm white, a cool white, unbleached titanium, Naples, yellow, transparent red oxice and ultramarine blue.
Charlie Hunter will spend a day prior to the workshop, visiting an assortment of locations in the Alleghany Highlands. A few enrollees have requested sites
with moving water, others have an interest in the railroad scene - -the cars, the station, the tracks. The artist will consider all aspects- -the available light, the topography, the sense of place that is inevitable
In the Alleghany Highlands. As it is in Vermont.
The workshop is nearly full. There are two places left to fill. Please call Clifton Forge School of the Arts(540) 862-7275 to inquire about enrollment and to receive the recommended list of materials and colors. Artists may paint in the medium of their choice. The fee for the workshop is $150. | | | | | |
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