Capture the Rhythm of Movement

Choose your painting mediums for this unique and immersive art experience that brings together the vibrant worlds of visual art, music, and dance. This is more than a workshop — it’s a chance to connect with the energy of performance and translate it into expressive, personal artwork.
Over the course of the session(s), you’ll observe live dancers and musicians and explore how to capture the rhythm, posture, and emotion of their performance on paper or canvas.

Instructor: International artist Anna Martin

Monday - Friday
September 8-12
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

We require a minimum of 6 students for this class.

$315/members
$350/non-members

UK based artists Anna Martin is mostly described as an expressionist painter. She derives her influence from the language and vibrancy of the impressionists and abstract expressionists. At times drawn to more abstract compositions with a mute colour palette and at others boldly expressing discordant colour harmonies. She is very influenced by music and as a pianist she says of her work. "My art is a vehicle to transform the world into dazzling colour and rhythm and offers a lens through which the world is viewed as a myriad of colour and instant emotion .” She works unconsciously to allow gestural movements and rhythm to guide her painting. Music and movement fuse to direct the rhythm of her brushwork in a rapid momentum to create and evoke a sense of place in her art. Her colour harmonies like music resonate at a deeper level and carry a momentum regardless of the subject. Her semi abstract paintings provoke an emotional experience rather than carrying a narrative. For Anna art is transformational and with her background of applied psychology Anna uses art as a form of mindfulness which activates new neural pathways both in the painter and the viewer. She also likes to capture movement and convey this energy through subjects such as horses or dancers and conveys the energy of a fleeting moment as though seen through the eyes of the subject. Anna travels around the world teaching art.

You may also like the following events from Monongalia Arts Center:

• This Wednesday, 13th August, 06:00 pm, Darkroom Printing Course in Morgantown
• This Thursday, 14th August, 06:00 pm, Literary Night with Laura Jackson in Morgantown
• Next month, 15th September, 10:00 am, Discover the heart of Appalachia through your brush in Morgantown

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