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Decisive Moments: Watercolor Workshop
February 11, 2023 | 12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Watercolor Workshop led by Victoria Beckert
Saturday, February 11, 2023
12:00 – 2:30pm
$35 per person
Price includes all materials and light refreshments. Limited seating.
Planting Fields recently opened a new exhibition, Decisive Moments at Planting Fields: The Photography of Mattie Edwards Hewitt and Frances Benjamin Johnston. Mattie Edwards Hewitt (1869 – 1956) and Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864 – 1952), whom W.R. Coe engaged to document the Olmsted-designed gardens as well as the buildings and interiors of Planting Fields, were pioneering women that dominated and ultimately defined the field of landscape and architecture photography in the early twentieth century. These photographers produced hundreds of lantern slides of Long Island Gold Coast estates. In this era of black and white photography, the images were initially developed in shades of grey. The slides were then sent out to artists who would hand-color each individual slide, bringing the vibrant color back to gardens and lawns in a process that was similar to watercolor painting. In celebration of our exhibition, join us for a special afternoon that includes, a guided tour of the exhibition, followed by light refreshments and a watercolor workshop led by artist, Victoria Beckert.
Victoria will teach you the basic techniques of watercolor painting and guide you through painting a landscape photograph of Planting Fields on your own. She has been painting since the third grade and has been teaching watercolor workshops throughout Long Island for the past 15 years. For the past 5 years she’s been a curator for Bayard Cutting Arboretum’s art exhibits and has shown her work locally at the Bay Area Friends-Fine Art gallery, Islip Arts Council, Patchogue Art Space, Art League of Long Island, the Stony Brook Long Island Museum and Bayard Cutting Arboretum. She is a member of various art groups such as the Islip Arts Council, Wet Paints Studio Group, East End Arts Council and is on the Board of Directors of Women Sharing Art, Inc. a not-for-profit group of women artists who give annual student scholarships to upcoming young artists from our local schools.
This program was made possible through generous grant funding provided by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.
