SUMMER RESIDENCY
Abstracting the Landscape
with Regina B Quinn, Professional Artist & Mentor
Learn how to move away from literal landscape painting as you discover ways of abstracting your work and creating a SENSE of place – using whatever painting media you prefer!
You Will Learn:
How to shift away from “depicting” a place to “expressing the essence” of what captivates you about a place.
Compositional approaches that will enhance your imagery.
How to create a palette of colors and values that will convey you abstracted landscape hinting at time of day or atmospheric conditions.
Audience: Fine Art Painters
Medium: Appropriate for All Painters
Stages: Aspiring, Emerging
Session Dates & Times:
July 15, 29, Aug 12, 26
10 am-12 pm MDT / 12 pm-2pm EDT /
5-7 pm BST
$198.00
2 in stock
WORKSHOP Description
We all experience moments in the natural world that ignite our senses, filling us with a sense of awe and wonder…
The way a spiderweb is illuminated by the dew in early morning light…the way the water sparkles along an ocean shore on a misty day…the way a forest or a cityscape is transformed and silhouetted at sunset…
Those moments may occur in very specific locations or they may be more connected experiences in a type of landscape, a time of day, a quality of light during certain seasons…
This residency will focus on transcending literal representations of place and focus on ways to identify and capture the essential qualities that spark our sensory and emotional responses to the natural world.
During our sessions, we will explore ways to pare down specific places we love to their essential elements, consider ways of creating strong compositions that emphasize the aspects of place that we find most evocative, develop palettes of color and values that support our goals as we engage in discussions and critiques that will help us all move towards the goal of abandoning traditional landscape painting and towards approaches that allow us to convey a more abstracted SENSE of place.
🎥 WORKSHOP RECORDINGS available for 1-YEAR after the workshop ends!
🎥 NOTE: Workshop Recordings may be offered for sale at a future date at Mastrius, with the consent of the instructor.
High School, University, and College students get 20% OFF. See FAQs at the bottom of page.
Supply List
* Whatever painting media you typically work with.
* A sketch book and color pencils or any other media you prefer for sketching.
* Source material: multiple images (digital, sketched, or printed) of the specific places or types of place you would like to abstract during our sessions.
Instructor Bio
At this moment—when the world as we’ve known it seems to be unravelling—I find myself searching for ways to respond through my daily life and artistic practice. For more than a decade, my encaustic and oil paintings have returned again and again to the theme of finding light in darkness—expressing hope and optimism through my connection to the natural world, even in turbulent times.
My work explores liminal spaces between day and night, recollection and observation, realism and abstraction. Viewers often tell me that my paintings resonate emotionally, evoking memories, experiences, and a sense of place.
In recent years of political and social upheaval, my work has evolved—shifting in materials, palette, and emotional intensity. Some paintings have grown darker and more visceral, with higher contrast, saturated hues, and vigorous scraping and scratching of layered surfaces. These gestures release grief and anger as I process the world around me. I often leave these pieces unresolved, creating an unsettling or ambiguous mood that invites contemplation about this moment in history. Even my titles, such as The Coyotes Howled Until Dawn, reflect a heightened sense of danger and awareness.
Other works, while marked by turbulence, feel as though they’ve emerged through the storm—their harmony suggesting resilience or fragile peace. I find myself oscillating between these emotional poles of dread and serenity, both of which seep naturally into my process rather than being consciously planned. Through and beyond upheaval, I hold fast to an awareness of the transient nature of existence, exploring themes of impermanence and fleeting light. These reflections are both a response to our uncertain era and an acknowledgment of my own evolving sense of time as I age.
Regina Bernadette Quinn – Bio
Regina B. Quinn is an encaustic artist based in the Northern Catskill Mountains of New York, after decades in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Her creative career has spanned painting, photography, ceramics, printmaking, and theatrical set design, though her primary focus is now encaustic mixed media.
“I was struck by the luminosity and subtlety of Doug and Mike Starn’s encaustics,” she writes, “and immediately sensed that this was my medium—one that could give voice to my aesthetic, sensibility, and quiet personality. I haven’t looked back.”
Regina is President of International Encaustic Artists and Vice-Chair of the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (WAAM) Board of Directors. She teaches encaustics in Ireland and at the Woodstock School of Art, and has received numerous honors, including the Faber Birren National Color Award, the Cooperstown Art Association Grand Prize, and the WAAM Yasuo Kuniyoshi Award.
Represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY, her work is held in the permanent collections of the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center (Brooklyn) and the Museum of Encaustic Art (Santa Fe). She exhibits regularly in juried and invitational shows, including the Salmagundi Club (NYC), WAAM, and Ann Marie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, a Smithsonian affiliate. Recent solo exhibitions include Radiant Edges (Cooperstown Art Association), An Unexpected Light (Locust Grove Estate, Poughkeepsie), and Expressions in Every Form (Bank Art Gallery, Newburgh).
