This workshop will provide a jumping off point to explore personal narratives; participants will be encouraged to peel away preconceptions and discover their own visual language and iconography. All levelsof experience welcome. Classes will take place both in the studio and out of doors. Site visits may include the cemetery, the moors and the fishing wharfs of Provincetown.
	Over the past 25 years, the artist Polly Burnell has developed an idiosyncratic and vibrant body of work, rich in personal iconography. Influenced by early expressionist landscape painters Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Charles Burchfield, Burnell’s paintings and ceramic pieces marry an abiding sense of place, the intimacy of personal narratives, and the sensual and tactile immediacy of the natural world. She works both as a painter and ceramicist, and has lived in Provincetown since 1986. She studied drawing and printmaking at Kent State University and the University of Cincinnati. She was visual Fellow at the Fine Art Work Center from 1993-94. Her work is in numerous public and private collections. Her work is locally represented by the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown..
Polly Burnell Materials List: Bring whatever surfaces you’d like to paint on-- wood or masonite panels, paper, sketchbooks, stretch canvas or canvas board. Participants should use paints they are most comfortable with or suggestions can be made about specific paints when registering. Polly recommends that participants use the best quality paints they canafford: Daniel Smith in Seattle, www.danielsmith.com or Winsor Newton—gouache, water colors or oils. Gamsol or Sansodor for thinners & Galkyd or Liquin for mediums. Drawing materials are encouraged, as well. .