Special Event August 11 & 18

In Menlo Macfarlane's Bishop's Room Studio

Thangka Painting Workshop with Tibetan Buddhist Monk

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Menlo Macfarlane

"The dynamics of shape, form, space, time and the illusion of movement taught to me by my teachers interact and inform my art, just as they did in my years as a dancer. My choreography unfolds across a flat surface of a canvas or a piece of handmade paper. I create a visual drama around a company of my own mythical figures that I immerse in a theatre constructed of texture, line, color and descending values of light. My own cast of characters continually reappear as I develop new pieces. They take on a different roles just as actors and dancers do in the theatre. One character in the company, "Raphael" appears alone in her portraits; performs solo in "She went to town once in her life and bought a hat…." And then reappears with other members of the company in "Soon It Will Be Time To Visit The Thief " and other pieces..." 

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Leah Wilson 

I am floating on the water.  I am submerged, moving with it, a part of it.  I am not a spectator on the bank.  I am a participant. As the paintings develop, they go through many changes.  They are not preconceived compositions, but rather intuitive responses to marks of paint on the surface of the panels.  The process directs the painting through the simplification and clarification of its elements, yet the paintings are not merely a documentation of the process used to create them.  Marks are made.  Then they are suppressed, melting into the surface under layers of paint or obscured by sanding and other means, or they are allowed to rise to the surface, being enhanced and given an emphasis.  Through this process, a place is created.  Within this place, within the illusion of space and time, an event occurs.  Decisions are made to echo the concrete natural world - the effect of light, movement and rhythms of its elements.  The elements, especially water, provide a framework, a reference to return to in the decision making process.  In the words of author Tom Robbins, water is - ‘Always in motion, ever-flowing (whether at steam rate or glacial speed), rhythmic, dynamic, ubiquitous, changing and working its changes, a mathematics turned wrongside out, a philosophy in reverse….’ It provides a perfect stage for a flee