Artist Workshop with Cindi O’Mara – Ephemeral Flower Paintings

Ephemeral Flowers Workshop

Artist-Led • Beebe’s at the Gallery
Saturday, December 20, 2025
12–2 pm
Suggested Donation

Join us inside Beebe’s at the Gallery for a special artist-led workshop inspired by the exhibition, Parallel Paths, currently on view. Surrounded by the artist’s work, participants will explore the beauty of fleeting moments in nature by creating their own ephemeral flower studies.

In this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to use simple gestural sketches and mixed-media layering to capture the essence of a flower—its energy, movement, and brief presence in time. This workshop is designed for all skill levels and encourages experimentation, play, and personal expression.

All materials are provided, including:

• Cold press watercolor paper
• Newsprint and blotter paper for practice
• Pre-cut mats for guiding image size
• Watercolor pencils
• Neocolor II water-soluble crayons
• Inktense blocks
• Acrylic inks (Muted + Aqua collections)
• Fine-tip ink marker pens and Sharpies
• Brushes, pencils, and drawing tools
• Water jars, spray bottles, eyedroppers
• Paper towels
• Salt + alcohol for texture effects

Cindi O'Mara shows us how to look deeply into nature, to notice the flower and the seed pod. Her workshop explores delicate watercolor and ink florals that can be finished as stationery or matted for display and gifting.

As an accomplished artist with decades of teaching experience, O'Mara shares methods and technical foundations to capture rhythmic compositional interplays between natural elements and human emotion, helping us produce works that resonate with our own harmony and fluidity.

The exhibition, Parallel Paths, brings together the work of Cindi O’Mara and her former student Ruby Merritt, presenting a narrative of growth, guidance, and mutual inspiration, where the bond of mentorship has shaped their artistic journeys and their vocations for art education.

Cindi O’Mara and Ruby Merritt echo one another in their investigations of abstracted landscapes and close-up textures that mirror and mimic nature’s patterns. Their palettes lean toward earthy tones, enlivened by iridescence and bursts of chroma, expressing reverence for the environment’s aesthetic wonder. Merritt often turns toward the unseen, ecosystems and micro-environments hidden from the naked eye, rendered through dense compositions and intricate mark-making. O’Mara complements this with an intuitive, flowing style and layered linework that embody renewal, balance, and close observation.

Parallel Paths, on view through January 9, 2026.

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