Exploring emotion, color, composition + the natural world
What does nature feel like?
Instead of trying to capture a landscape exactly as we see it, From Nature to Abstraction invites you to explore the colors, rhythms, textures, energy, and emotions we experience in the natural world—and translate them into abstract art.
Over four weeks, we’ll slow down and look closely at our surroundings, gathering inspiration from nature through observation, photographs, sketches, words, color, and memory. We’ll experiment with building personal palettes, expressive mark-making, shape, layering, and composition, discovering how visual choices can communicate feelings such as stillness, movement, joy, mystery, wildness, or calm.
Rather than creating one finished representational image, you’ll work through a series of paintings and studies, allowing each piece to inform the next. We’ll explore how repetition, variation, color, and composition can transform an individual idea into a cohesive abstract series.
This is a playful, process-focused class for anyone curious about abstraction, whether you have years of painting experience or are just beginning to explore your own visual language.
Exploring emotion, color, composition + the natural world
What does nature feel like?
Instead of trying to capture a landscape exactly as we see it, From Nature to Abstraction invites you to explore the colors, rhythms, textures, energy, and emotions we experience in the natural world—and translate them into abstract art.
Over four weeks, we’ll slow down and look closely at our surroundings, gathering inspiration from nature through observation, photographs, sketches, words, color, and memory. We’ll experiment with building personal palettes, expressive mark-making, shape, layering, and composition, discovering how visual choices can communicate feelings such as stillness, movement, joy, mystery, wildness, or calm.
Rather than creating one finished representational image, you’ll work through a series of paintings and studies, allowing each piece to inform the next. We’ll explore how repetition, variation, color, and composition can transform an individual idea into a cohesive abstract series.
This is a playful, process-focused class for anyone curious about abstraction, whether you have years of painting experience or are just beginning to explore your own visual language.
