Art d'Oc Drawing and Painting
in the Languedoc, South of France
Tutors |
Danielle Eubank |
| Wendy Winfield |
| Gail Sauter |
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Danielle Eubank
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Danielle Eubank is an oil painter from Occidental, a small coastal town in Northern California. She is best known for her undulating, ‘close up’ paintings of water that are remarkable for the way they capture the personality of the subject. Her work is modern, formalist, although it is strongly rooted in the realm of figurative art.
Today Eubank works between Los
Angeles, USA, and London, UK. She holds a Master of Fine Arts
from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she studied
fine art for 8 years. |
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As
Expedition Artist aboard an 8th century wooden sailing vessel, The Borobudur Ship,
Eubank traveled from Indonesia to Seychelles, Madagascar, South
Africa, and Ghana.
She has been a jury member for the BAFTA awards
in London, represented the UK as a steering committee member for
EuroPrix-a Europe-wide multimedia art prize, and has spoken at
conferences and universities internationally. |
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Eubank's
work demonstrates her interest in light, composition, and colour.
In her paintings of water, she uses reflections in the water to
approach the subject of light. The colours she uses are comprised
of numerous translucent layers of paint. Danielle most often works
with oil on canvas, charcoal, and oil on card. |
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artistic vision has always been influenced by the intensely rich
landscape that surrounded her in her formative years. From the
rugged coastline's eternal and heroic opposition to the Pacific
Ocean and the incredible variations in vistas from dank, purple-shaded
Redwood groves, vineyards and apple-orchards, to treeless moonscapes
illuminating creeks and a vast expanse of undulating ground dotted
with wild irises. |
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more about Danielle Eubank and her work visit www.danielleeubank.com o r click this icon: |
Wendy Winfield |
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| Wendy
Winfield was born in London and studied at Kingston School of
Art and The Courtauld School of Art. In the 1970s she was a pupil
with the Abstract Expressionist painter Abraham Rattner in New
York and more recently with the Bomberg-influenced school of painters
under Roy Oxlade in Tunbridge Wells in the late 1980s. |
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After
a career in advertising, Winfield turned to full-time artistic
practice in the 1980s. Her teaching experience dates from a period
before her career in advertising when she worked in secondary
education. She has returned to teaching in the last few years.
Winfield
has exhibited annually for several years in group shows mainly
in London, and has a solo London show every 2-3 years. |
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| Wendy Winfield's work is figurative and takes its
inspiration from a study of motifs including landscape figure
composition and still life. It is informed by the paintings of
Matisse and American and European Expressionism. Bold colour and
expressive gesture are central to Winfield's painting and drawing |
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Winfield the process of painting is as important as the end result.
The paint is manipulated, layered, allowed to drip, rubbed-in,
scraped away and generally assertively used. Sometimes the organization
of the painting, the two-dimensional composition, colour and drawing
are determined in advance, at other times these dimensions must
be flexible in order to achieve a result. Colour which generally
establishes mood is likely to be the initial stimulus to starting
to paint and is likely to be the one constant but even this may
be subject to change. |
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importance of drawing from observation is an important feature
of Winfield's work. Most summers she spends time in France or
Italy working out of doors directly from nature both drawing and
painting. "I have visited Languedoc four or five times to
paint, and love the wildness of the terrain, the changing light
and temperamental weather. |
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wonderful thing is that you can always find asunny sheltered spot
to set out your paints and get to work. What I love about working en plein aire is the total unpredictability of it. You
don't know where it will take you or what you will end up with!"
As the artist notes: " My interest is to capture the character
of a motif - figures or landscape - together with using the medium
strongly and directly." |
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present myself as a teacher who is not interested in teaching
the rules of perspective, precise accuracy, proportion, colour balance,
etc.
I shall encourage students to revel in and absorb
the nature of the terrain, the light, the sense of place, and
help and encourage them to find their own way of expressing this.
If you look feel respond there are no such things as "mistakes"
- it is important to trust the eye, to sense the motif and let
the hand follow. |
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For
more about Wendy Winfield and her work visit her web page or click on this icon: |
Gail Sauter |
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| Gail
Sauter always knew she would be an artist. Today, that is her
vocation and her passion. Growing up as an only child, she moved
often with her family (her father was in the military). Living
in different cultures as well as in many different parts of the
United States has given her an insight into the universality of
people around the world. This is an important thrust of her work
today and she travels extensively to paint on location. |
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Gail
Sauter obtained her BFA in painting from the University of Oklahoma.
Going out west for school was a very dynamic experience for her.
“They are very passionate about everything they do out there
– especially football!” she says. “I learned to
throw my whole self into the ‘game’ of self-expression
and not to do it in a laid back manner!” |
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works on the premise that technique should serve the intention
of the painter. It is more important to express a message with
power than it is to accurately report on what is in front of you.
Style develops through the process of learning to paint and it
is in our individual painting strengths and weaknesses that we
flavor our paintings and present our viewpoint. As an instructor
Gail will help students get out of their own way by encouraging
them to identify their personal painting quirks, to value them,
and to paint the paintings thatare inside of them by letting these
quirks grow and building on them. |
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feels it is important that artists reach out and connect one with
another and share our sameness while we celebrate our differences.
Painting is her vehicle for expressing those deep connections
and for speaking a universal language. |
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“I
want to capture and hold a unique and fleeting moment in time.
To make it real so that anyone can relate to it and envision themselves
being a part of it. It is through the experience of sharing such
moments that we discover something about ourselves. To me, that
is what art is all about."
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Gail
has been working professionally in oils and pastels since the
early seventies, and she’s been awarded the honorary distinctions
of Master Pastelist from the Pastel Society of America and full
Artist status by the Copley Society of Boston. Gail has held fellowship
residencies at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Vermont
Studio Colony, the Atlin Art Center in British Columbia, and I
Park in Connecticut. She has a BFA degree in painting from the
University of Oklahoma, is listed in
Who’s Who in American Art and her work has been published
in The Best of Pastel 2 and L’Art du Pastel. Her paintings
have been exhibited across the United States and in Canada, Great
Britain, Italy, France, and Russia |
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For
more about Gail Sauter and her work visit her
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