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The Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum is delighted to offer a four-day painting class with highly regarded local artist and instructor Severin Haines. This course is timed to coincide with peak bloom in the RJD’s full city block of gardens from Thursday, June 6th through Sunday, June 9th from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.
This unique and concentrated learning experience, which combines one-on-one instruction with Mr. Haines, runs for six hours each day. Beginning with an illustrated history of garden painting and the work of noted artists such as Monet, Vuillard, and Childe Hassam, it will progress through the work of contemporary landscape artists of today. Explore, with the artist, the “formal issues of color interactions.” The program is designed to accommodate a range of artistic experience, working with oil, acrylic, watercolor or pastel. Each day will provide painting in the gardens, and a shared art experience as participants gather for lunch to critique their progress.
Severin Haines is a graduate of the Swain School of Design who received his master’s degree at Yale University’s School of Art and Architecture. His considerable teaching experience began at the Swain School in 1975 where he served as the Chair of the Painting Department until 1988, when he accepted a Professorship at UMASS Dartmouth, and is now Professor Emeritus. He has exhibited in numerous galleries and one-person shows, locally as well as in Boston, New York and his native Norway.
The program fee is $250 per student. A suggested list of materials and supplies will be provided to registrants before class begins. To register for this program please call The Rotch-Jones-Duff Museum at 508-997-1401 or online at www.rjdmuseum.org.
