Sylvan Gallery 2011 Paintings Workshops & News


2011 Landscape Painting Workshop with Al Barker

Sylvan Gallery is pleased to offer at intensive 2-day landscape painting workshop in oils with instructor, Al Barker. In this workshop, Al Barker will instruct on a simplified approach to painting the landscape. He will cover such areas as color, design and technique for painting small panel images. The instructor will teach by demonstration and also circulate to give each artist individual attention at their easel and discuss work in progress. Panel sizes of less than 11 x 14" are strongly encourage. Students should have time to work on more than one panel each day. Painting in oils is encouraged. all levels are welcome.

Al Barker 2011 Workshop Dates: Saturday 9am - 4pm; Sunday 9am - 4pm, August 27 & 28

Registration/Payments: $250 for both days, $50 deposit is required to reserve your workshop attendance. Early registration is advised. Upon registration, a materials list will be provided. Class Size will be limited to 12 students.

Instructor information: Al Barker has won over fifty major awards in premier art competitions. He is one of the few artists that have exhibited continuously at the Easton Waterfowl Festival, Easton, Maryland since its inception over thirty years ago. He is a skilled educator and is represented in galleries across the United States. Please visit Al Barker's Artist Page to learn more information about this talented artist.

Please contact Sylvan Gallery with any questions and to register for this workshop!


2011 at Sylvan Gallery is already off to a great start!


Artist Deborah Quinn-Munson was honored by having the featured covered article in March 2011 issue of the Artist's Magazine. The five-page article, "The Solace of Still Water" written by Editor, Maureen Bloomfield, features a variety of Quinn-Munson’s oil and pastel paintings including the description of how she creates the works and the tools she uses. In the Letter From the Editor Bloomfield writes, “And working in a range of media-watercolor, pastel and oil, Deborah Quinn-Munson wields a pastel stick as well as a palette knife to suggest the myriad blues and moods of the sea.” Quinn-Munson’s painting, My Time on the River is pictured on the cover of the magazine. In addition, Quinn-Munson has written an article for the Close-Up page about the palette knife technique of painting in oil. Check out Deborah's Artist's Page to see the painting in full size!

Other News...
Peter Layne Arguimbau won the Rudolph J. Schaefer Maritime Heritage Award at the 31st Annual International Marine Art Exhibition, Maritime Art Gallery, Mystic, CT, for his painting Black Dog. On January 29, 2011 Arguimbau gave a painting demonstration and discussed painting methods of the Old Masters at the Mystic Maritime Gallery.

Sylvan 2009 News & Highlights of the Year
A special thank you to all of our friends for the support you have given us over the years. Rick and I feel blessed that we continually find people who love art just as much as we do and who know what a difference it makes to our well-being to be able to view beautiful paintings each day. We also feel very lucky to be able to represent such a talented group of artists who are continually growing in knowledge and abilities as well. We feel we have one of the best jobs...representing these wonderful artists who create paintings that improve the spaces we live in and finding people who feel a connection to them. Following that same line of thought, one of the highlights of our year was that paintings were chosen from Sylvan Gallery to be purchased for the Smilow Art Program at the new Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven. Cama Incorporated were the interior designers chosen to select art for the hospital. Their goal was to create a "healing atmosphere" in the building through art. Quoting from Smilow's interior features modern art by Lauren Motzkin, staff reporter for "Yale Daily News": "There is a lot of research in support of evidence-based design, which says that there is a correlation between the design of a space and the health outcome," (Roz) Cama said. "The board of the hospital understood that art creates the right kind of distraction for patients and the right kind of atmosphere for healing." The Sylvan Gallery Artists whose works were selected for the Smilow Cancer Hospital were Patrick Branch, Sandy Garvin, Deborah Quinn-Munson and Karen Wiesner. Below are some of the pieces that are now installed in Smilow Cancer Hospital.

Sunlit Field by Patrick Branch, oil on panel, 17" x 23"


By Sandy Garvin, left to right: Duck River, oil, 36" x 36" and The Last Hurrah, oil, 47" x 47"


By Deborah Quinn-Munson, left to right: CT River Reflections, oil, 26" x 36" and Blue Sky Day, oil, 30" x 30"


By Deborah Quinn-Munson, left to right: Marsh Gold, oil, 36" x 46", and July Sparkle, oil, 24" x 48"


By Karen Wiesner, Yellow Barn on Indian River, pastel, 11" x 12 1/2"

Please feel free to contact us if you would like more information on any of these artists.

Other news... Frank Mason, a renowned artist and instructor at the Art Students League in NYC passed away on June 16, 2009. He was an instructor to many of the talented artists that we represent. I was lucky to have studied with him for eight years when we lived in New York. There is so much that can be said about Mason...he was bigger than life with a personality that could fill up several rooms but had the most delicate stroke when demonstrating an important concept on a student's painting. He is one of the major artists that kept representational painting alive when it was out of fashion as he passed on his knowledge to thousands of students over an incredible teaching span of 57 years at the ASL. To learn more about this remarkable artist, please read this extensive obituary that The Times in London published: Frank Mason: artist and teacher Gallery artists who studied under Mason include: Peter Layne Arguimbau, Amy Beth Danielson, Jennifer Li, Nicholas Oberling, Patrick Branch, Elizabeth Torak, Thomas Torak, Jack Winslow, Karen Winslow and Laura Winslow.
Artists that we represent who were honored with distinguished Awards this year include: Al Barker received the Mary Fitch Memorial Award at the Salmagundi Club's 126th Annual Member's Exhibition Heather Gibson-Lusk received the Marion Tetlow Best Local Artist award at the 2009 Mystic Outdoor Art Festival Barbara Lussier received the Isabella W. Steinschneider award at the Hudson Valley Art Association 2009 Annual Show. She was also awarded "top 15% distinction" by the jury for the August and September 2009 Fine Arts Views painting competition. Victor Mays received the Thomas Wells Award at the 30th Annual International, 2009 exhibition at Mystic Seaport Maritime Art Gallery Of Additional Interest... Thomas Torak* took over Frank Mason's class at the Art Student's League. Karen Winslow is conducting regular classes and offering free oil painting demonstrations from the "new" Winslow Art Studio in Cambridge, VT. For more information, contact Karen through Winslow Art Studio. This is a great opportunity to see and hear how a master artist thinks as she begins a painting.

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