65 Grafton Street
Presented in partnership with Art Across Our Island, Kings Playhouse invites you to two beautiful days of painting at Georgetown Plein Air.
Special thanks to the Province of Prince Edward Island for their support through the Community Cultural Partnership Program.
What is Plein Air?
‘Plein air painting is about leaving the four walls of your studio behind and experiencing painting and drawing in the landscape. The practice goes back for centuries but was truly made into an art form by the French Impressionists. Their desire to paint light and its changing, ephemeral qualities, coupled with the creation of transportable paint tubes and the box easel—the precursor to the plein air easels of today—allowed artists the freedom to paint “en plein air,” which is the French expression for “in the open air.” ‘
(Read more here: https://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-subjects/plein-air/plein-air-art/)
Schedule for the Weekend
Friday, August 5th
8:30am: Participants arrive for meet and greet and set up on location
9:30am: Sessions with instructors begin
12:30pm: Lunch on location or at the Playhouse
2:00pm: Afternoon sessions with instructors
7:30pm: Fascinating Ladies at Kings Playhouse
Saturday, August 6th
8:30am: Participants meet and set up on location
9:30am: Sessions with instructors begin
12:00pm: Instruction ends/Lunch
1:00pm: Optional Quick Draw Contest/Free Painting
Meet the Instructors
Linda Shaw Packard
Linda Shaw Packard started following her passion for visual art at age ten when a guest of the family’s Shaw’s Hotel at Brackley Beach gave Linda her first step toward an exploration of light, colour, emotion and connection. She is inspired by the light in the woods, on th ebeach and the photography of Linda Griesbauer.
Linda studied Commercial Design, then Education. She helped write the Art Education Curriculum with the Department of Education and was a Fine Arts teacher for 22 years. Linda has organized, taught and facilitated many workshops for teachers and community programs and served as a president of the PEI Visual Arts Teachers Association. Linda received the affiliate award for PEI from the Canadian Society of Education through Arts in Halifax in 2014. She continues to study, teach and work as an artist, currently focusing on watercolour and acrylic.
Julia Purcell
Julia has been drawing and painting ever since her university days in Technical Theatre at Dalhousie University, where she earned a BA with Honours. She worked briefly at Neptune Theatre in Halifax NS but quickly realized her real passion was painting. While she acknowledges the value of the quality instruction she received while at Dalhousie in drawing, painting, design and lighting, she has rarely looked back on that profession.
She paints regularly and exhibits her work where it can be seen by the public in many commercial galleries. Julia devotes time to improving and learning about art making, whether it is in the form of a short online course through NSCAD in relief printing with printmaker Carrier Fisher or in earning an ALG Certificate for artists and art gallery workers led by staff at the Anna Leonowens Gallery. Julia give the occaional invited artist talk, on art related topics such as Colour Theory.
Grace Curtis
Grace has been a working artist for over 10 years. She holds a Commercial Art Degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art from Pensacola Christian College, Pensacola FL. Since 2011, Grace’s primary focus has been fine art painting.
Her experience has included a wide variety of projects including book illustration, website design, logo, brochure, invitation, card and giftware design. In 2019 Grace’s statue design of Lucy Maud Montgomery was selected for the Montgomery Park in Cavendish PE.