SCAN To Host Oil Painting Demo By Kathy Anderson

The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will have an oil painting demonstration by Kathy Anderson at its next meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, April 11, from 7:30 to 9 pm. The program will take place at Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street (at the flagpole).

The public is invited to attend, free of charge..

Ms Anderson speaks of her passion for painting as being rooted in her garden.

“I strive to translate my excitement about the experience of growth, light, and translucent colors from the earth to my canvas,” she said.

Kathy Anderson began her formal training in commercial art but quickly found it too confining. Experimenting with styles and mediums, she gravitated toward her garden and produced distinctive and sought after floral watercolors.

Circumstances found her casually involved in painting sets for small theater productions and working on such a large scale eventually led to a successful mural career.

Ms Anderson finally made her way back to easel work and fell in love with the range of expression afforded by oils. In 2001, she had the good fortune to meet Richard Schmid when he purchased one of her paintings. The meeting resulted in her being invited to join the Putney Painters under Schmid’s tutelage. For the past ten years she has traveled to Vermont several times a month to paint with Schmid, Nancy Guzik, and her fellow Putney Painters.

A frequent award winner, Ms Anderson recently got her signature membership in Oil Painters of America and Allied Artists. One of her still lifes is held in the permanent collection of the National Arts Club where she is an Exhibiting Artist Member.

She will be a guest artist with the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters in Grand Teton National Park this July and be part of Artists for the New Century at the Bennington Center of the Arts.

Her work has appeared in four issues of International Artist instructional texts and she has been a finalist in their contests four times. She has recently had articles in Art of the West, Southwest Art, American Artist Studio magazine and been Artist to Watch in Fine Art Connoisseur.

Reservations are not needed for SCAN programs, but additional information is always available from Programs Chair Ruth Newquist at 203-426-6654.