Discover the heart of Appalachia through your brush

Name: Discover the heart of Appalachia through your brush
Start: 2025-09-15T10:00:00-04:00
Location: 107 High St, Morgantown, WV, United States, West Virginia 26505

Schedule

Mon, 15 Sep, 2025 at 10:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

107 High St, Morgantown, WV, United States, West Virginia 26505 | Morgantown, WV

Join us for this intensive workshop with international artists Anna Martin! Use the paint medium of your choice in this dynamic five-day workshop using Morgantown as your creative base. From the rich cultural tapestry of its university town to the sweeping landscapes and layered histories of the surrounding state—this is your opportunity to explore, respond to, and capture the many faces of West Virginia.
Monday - Friday
September 15 -19
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
We require a minimum of 6 students for this class.
$315/members
$350/non-members
UK based artists Anna Martin is mostly described as an expressionist painter. She derives her influence from the language and vibrancy of the impressionists and abstract expressionists. At times drawn to more abstract compositions with a mute colour palette and at others boldly expressing discordant colour harmonies. She is very influenced by music and as a pianist she says of her work. "My art is a vehicle to transform the world into dazzling colour and rhythm and offers a lens through which the world is viewed as a myriad of colour and instant emotion .” She works unconsciously to allow gestural movements and rhythm to guide her painting. Music and movement fuse to direct the rhythm of her brushwork in a rapid momentum to create and evoke a sense of place in her art. Her colour harmonies like music resonate at a deeper level and carry a momentum regardless of the subject. Her semi abstract paintings provoke an emotional experience rather than carrying a narrative. For Anna art is transformational and with her background of applied psychology Anna uses art as a form of mindfulness which activates new neural pathways both in the painter and the viewer. She also likes to capture movement and convey this energy through subjects such as horses or dancers and conveys the energy of a fleeting moment as though seen through the eyes of the subject. Anna travels around the world teaching art.