The Brackendale Art Gallery will be the place to be for art lovers Saturday (April 18) as the creator of entrancing landscape paintings delivers an all-day workshop detailing techniques for placing oil on canvas.
"Haven't you just been wishing for an opportunity to acquaint, or re-acquaint, yourself with this luscious traditional painting medium?" asked BAG co-owner Dorte Froslev.
"Here is your chance. There are only a few spaces left and it is going to be awesome fun."
For $80, locals are invited to join Eszter Burghardt from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. She will provide tips on a wide array of techniques and strategies for the notoriously finicky medium.
"I will talk about and bring some samples of what I use for painting," said Burghardt, "like surfaces, grounds, brushes, how to clean up, a varnishing recipe, a glazing recipe, traditional ways to begin a painting, student versus artist quality paints, the fat over lean rule, drying time, a basic palette, techniques like glazing, dry brush, impasto, resource books, plein air painting and its importance, painting from life, using a black mirror for tone, turning a painting upside down, studio safety, fumes... oh boy I could go on."The workshop will include a hands-on exploration with the medium and a small project with all materials supplied.
According to her bio, Burghardt is a Canadian-Hungarian artist living and working in Vancouver. She is fresh from her solo exhibition at the Bau-Xi Gallery in Vancouver. Based on a trip to the Canadian Western Arctic, the show "Tundra's Tale" is about her travels into the Arctic tundra in the summer of 2008.
Her paintings are often inspired by her travels when ideas develop into painted stories. Much of her work is based from memory and imagination.
"Burghardt pays close attention to the effects of light, colour, sound, and the emotional qualities found in her surrounding environment. Immersing herself into this atmosphere is where she finds the catalysts needed to paint these inspired works. The landscapes she paints take on human qualities and become characters in visually told stories. Subtle hovering loops and distant specks of light act as quiet narrators that add to this engaging dialogue."
