Meeting every Saturday morning, 9-12 at my studio, we will go through a balance of drawing exercises to the art of seeing, special skills to sharpen the results in the drawing and open-ended projects of your design. One Saturday a month will be uninstructed, open studio time with feedback available for your project if desired.  The instruction can easily be tailored to individual skill level and goals since the group is small.  The workshop is intended to be a continuous series of monthly sessions, progressing as far as you desire. Students can expect to get a well rounded introductory or refresher course in one session, and may continue beyond that at their own pace.  Since it is ongoing, students are free to begin at any time.

I have been teaching drawing in groups of all ages, from preschool to retirement,  for almost 20 years. It is  a dynamic process of new discoveries, always challenging and often very exciting to  open one’s eyes a little wider to the world, within and outside oneself, through the act of drawing. I truly believe it should be a required course for life !

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the surface, though it appears

perfect,and oh, so white,

it must be covered. In layers

you will find the face,

which already rests, well within

this shallow reservoir.

A new chamber opens now, even

before the contours are etched

from a bone white facade;

invisible, the narrow lines

circumscribe the bounds of line

and color, glazed from darkness

into light. Draw the scribe

firmly; each singular mark will serve

as a beginning, an auspicious moment

of unveiling, reversing all

less attentive habits often held

in hope of covering one’s tracks.

No! plunge into this work!

A fearsome revelation strikes,

though all too often late.

Whether right or not, each petit lac

that follows shall fulfill the form.

Take heart…an unanticipated grace

awaits (is it ever otherwise?)

If, in the space between

what has been done

and that which is to be,

is sealed the barest sort

of prayer, an alchemy,

an occasion… something new.

Adorn the likeness which you seek

with clay: that well met hue

from every desert wandering becomes

host to less familiar stuff. Gold

adheres perfectly to this sticky

sanguine base, assisted solely

by the banal medium of breath

drawn deeply, best delivered of a

misty dawn, gut-emptying until

the aura fuses, and, if all goes well, transforms.

A tiny drop of red, dreadful

if touched, traces a gilded edge.

The compass font bleeds

the slender arc: a ring

wedding flesh with spirit, betrays

the end, declares the promise.

Though hinted by a halo, the person

is yet unseen. A luminous

foretelling, movement from

darkest earth to light,

a wash of chaos, color,

warms the image, makes its form,

consummating all created

elements in Uncreated light.

After naming by black lines, decisive

strokes of silent pigment

rendered from charred bone…

attend! These must echo closely

the early etching, now embedded

in hues of ochre, terra verte and lapis.

Expect a delicate recovery of light.

The task present is to see, perhaps

more truly, to be seen by the One

Whose Image tenders all.

In a blink the iris is proscribed,

her gaze fixed. Regarding the final

life-giving light, if there is a way,

I wouldn’t know. Infinite possibilities

arise, gestured by the final

turning of the hand, now trembling.

The brush lifts several last rays,

like lightning or lace, they surface,

tendrils floating from the bone

beneath, upon a host of coarser

grains, borne upwards.

Anne Emmons

Incomplete Icons of Personhood

The body of work that birthed this exhibit explores the experience of home and family within the context of an ancient tradition of image making that is grounded in honoring the intrinsic beauty, the divine image, within every person.

The art is intentionally interdependent with life, patiently gleaned from events and relationships. The persons with whom I share everyday life are my most precious material. Time is a medium. Daily reality is drawn in and held up to the light, in the timeless setting of the painted image. I depend upon what is evident in life, and make art in the hope of what is not yet seen.

This work is intended to change me. It holds me to a commitment to look deeply into life as it is, here and now, through a sacred view of humanity, of the potential of each life. In the ambiguous space between the obvious and the hidden, I find beauty.

Each person is viewed as a jewel, in many facets, translated into the language and materials of the icon: wood and linen, line and color, clay and gold. My work in life and art is to live honestly.

I invite the viewer within this circle, to see these images of personhood within an intimate space for his own private contemplation.

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This work explores an intentional integration of contemporary artistic practice and ancient sacred tradition, through studio methods and academic research searching out and upholding the intrinsic beauty of every person, expressed in the context of identity, family roles and relationships.