INSTRUCTORS

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INSTRUCTORS

This list includes instructors for the six week classes beginning in January 2012.

Christine Bray:

Christine holds a BFA form Georgia State University and has studies with such masters as David Lefffel and Gregg Kruetz. She is locally represented by Anne Irwin Fine Art. Christine Bray

Evelyn Breit:

Evelyn holds a BFA, Cum Laude, from the State University of New York. She studied figure painting at the Art Students League of New York, the Atlanta College of Art, and with renowned artists Burton Silverman, Margaret Carter Baumgaertner, Richard Whitney and Bill Hosner. Evelyn is a Member of Excellence in several art societies and is a multiple award winner. www.breitart.net

Nancy Dusenberry:

Nancy studied with renowned artists such as Marc Chatov, Burton Silverman, and Daniel Greene, Kim English, Roger Dale Brown, to name a few. Her work holds a strong inclination for narrative painting. www.nancydusenberry.com

John B. Guersney:

Originally form southern California, contemporary landscape artist, John Brian Guersney, moved to Georgia in 1993 for a business career, and transitioned to an art career in 2006. Having developed his drawing skills through college courses and workshop study, he now concentrates primary on landscape painting. He is greatly influenced by the great western landscape artists, past and present. Most of his work is done en plein air, or alla prima (completing a painting in one sitting); although he is gradually increasing the output of larger studio paintings. His work reveals a keen observance of atmosphere and light and he is inspired not only by nature, but by city life and architecture.

www.johnbguernsey.com

Patricia Beggins Magers

Patricia holds a MFA from Georgia State University in Drawing and Painting and has worked professionally as a advertising illustrator and portrait painter. She was locally represented at Fay Gold. www.particiabeggins.com

Millie Gosch

“Painting was always a part of me,” says Mille Gosch, who has painted since she was a child. She pursued her passion in art studies at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Later. she returned to her native Georgia and settled in the Atlanta area. After a successful career in the decorative arts, Ms. Gosch returned to her first love of fine arts. A native of a classic southern town, Newnan, Georgia, she finds the lowlands and rural fields in the area and the marshes and waters of coastal Georgia inspirations for her landscape paintings. She is active in bringing well-know plein air painters to the Southeast to teach workshops. Ms. Gosch has won several awards, most recently as a finalist in the prestigious RayMar Second Annual Fine Art Competition with her oil painting “Sunrise in Summer.” She has been accepted in exhibitions throughout Georgia and in the Southeast. Her work hangs in numerous private collections and she is represented by four Georgia galleries: Frameworks Gallery, Marietta; Two Sisters Gallery, Columbus; Panoply, Newnan;. www.milliegosch.com

Catherine Anne Moore

Catherine Anne Moore who holds a MFA in Illustration from SCAD Savannah is originally from Wisconsin, is a free lance illustrator and works primarily in graphite and watercolor. www.catherineamoore.com

Marian O'Shaughnessy

Marian O'Shaughnessy is a signature member in the Georgia Watercolor Society, the Minnesota Watercolor Society, and the Tallahassee Watercolor Society. She is an award winning watercolorist and has traveled and studied with a number of master watercolorists including Jan Fabian-Wallake, Alvaro Castagnet, Judy Wagner, Mel Stabin, and Christopher Schink. www.watercolorsbymarian.com

Donna Thomas

Donna is a local artist and Sandy Springs resident. She attended the Fine Art School at the University of Georgia School of Fine Arts and has painted for more than 35 years primarily in oils. She is the past gallery owner at TULA on Bennett Street in Atlanta and the Paper Mill Gallery in Marietta. She teaches a variety of painting techniques including palette knife, rub outs, drips and how to critique your work. www.donnathomas.com, dthomas555@aol.com

Gary Weiss:

A graduate of the renowned Art Center of Design in California, Gary taught at the Portfolio Center in Atlanta for 25 years. He is accomplished in landscape and the figure in both charcoal and oil. He teaches the clothed figure in both drawing and oil painting. A limited palette is used for painting. www.garyweiss.net

PAST INSTRUCTORS

Adrienne Anderson (Color)

Elizabeth Bame (Portraiture)

Patricia Branch (Watercolor)

Gary Bodner

Robert Christie (Animals)

Elizabeth D'Angelo (Children)

Emory Daniel (Watercolor)

Helen Deramus (Encaustic)

Pat Fiorello (Watercolor)

Kathryn Forrester (Children)

Lamar Gee (Photography)

J. William Hill (Drawing)

Barbara Jaenicke (Pastel)

Jason McGrady (Encaustic)

Christy Mull (Still Life)

Rebecca Nagel (Children)

Susan Rochwerger (Portraiture)

Melody Trivisone (Encaustic)

Halima Washington (Palette Knife)

Basil Watson (Figure Drawing)

Ellen White (Oil)

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