Fall Painting Workshop – Eric Aho

Two-day workshop
October 11 - 12, 2008
limited to 12 participants
Tuition: $800
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Eric invites participants to pursue the quest of rendering on a static canvas the interplay of natural light. Observing the changing winter to spring landscape and its corresponding palette, participants will explore the values inherent to this distinct time of year. Aho states that he wishes “to be aware of the contradictions that the landscape presents—that a hill can feel weightless, that a cloud can have immense proportion and weight and, in a sense, press the landscape down. In some way it’s really the sky that is the tangible element and the landscape fleeting.” The two-day workshop is the perfect forum to test these perceptions.

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After studying drawing and printmaking at the Central School of Art and Design in London, England, Eric went on to receive a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1988. In 1989, as a graduate student at the Massachusetts College of Art, Aho participated in the first exchange of scholars between the United States and Cuba since 1959. A Fulbright Fellowship in 1991–1992 allowed him to spend a year painting and traveling through his ancestral Finland with extended trips to Norway and Russian Karelia. Over the past several years his work has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Vermont Council on the Arts, the Finlandia Foundation, the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland, the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Vermont Community Foundation. Aho has been a visiting artist at the University of Lapland in Finland, the Burren College of Art in Ireland, the National College of Art and Design in Oslo, Norway, and at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He currently lives and paints in southern Vermont.