Jane Davies
Website: http://janedaviesstudios.com/
Area of Operation: Rupert, VT
Events:
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The Elements of Visual Language: A Fresh Look at Abstract Composition
** Please note the above dates are 2 weeks but no class on the in between weekend. This is not a workshop on How-To-Make-Good-Composition, or ‘correct’ composition. It is an examination of visual elements - color, value, line, shape, etc., and exploration of their infinite possibilities. We will begin with exercises to deepen your awareness of common defaults, the compositional conventions we tend to fall back on without realizing it. With this new awareness we can make conscious choices and experiment more broadly, turning composition into an expansive area of inquiry, rather than a set of rules to follow. Let your approach evolve with your art practice to reflect your unique way of seeing and expressing.
Date: October 19th, 2025 - October 31st, 2025
Time: 09:30 AM - 04:30 PM
Venue: Nancy Crow Timber Barn, Baltimore, Ohio, United States
Contact: Nancy Crow
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 740-862-6554
Fee: $3360.
Event Open to Public
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The Visual Sentence: Printmaking & Collage
Discover a whole new world of artistic possibility when you remove the boundaries of the canvas or substrate and string your pieces together like words in a sentence. We will make individual prints using the gel plate*, and OPEN acrylic paints on various papers. Each print is a part of a whole, not a whole image, and you can mix and match to your delight! You will make many prints in order to generate a plethora of possibilities when it comes to creating your sentences. This class is open to those with some experience with gel plate printing. I will review the basics only briefly on the first day to establish a framework for going forward.
Date: September 14th, 2025 - September 20th, 2025
Time: 09:30 AM - 04:30 PM
Venue: Hudson River Valley Art Workshops, Greenville, New York, United States
Contact: Kim LaPolla
Email: [email protected]
Fee: $1055.
Event Open to Public
https://www.artworkshops.com/workshop/the-visual-sentence-printmaking-collage-with-jane-davies/
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Mix-it-Up Mark Making
We all make marks of one kind of another, whether doodling while on the phone, drawing a map or diagram, or making art. In this workshop you will make marks in a wide variety of materials and discover techniques through which you can express your unique voice. Instead of going on autopilot when making marks, celebrate their expressive qualities and expand your visual vocabulary. We will use drawing media, paint, and collage, combining them into exciting new images. Surprise yourself with Mix-It-Up Mark Making.
Date: July 28th, 2025 - August 1st, 2025
Time: 09:30 AM - 04:30 PM
Venue: Madeline Island School of the Arts, La Pointe, Wisconsin, United States
Contact: Annie Sumner
Email: [email protected]
Fee: $1095.
Event Open to Public
https://www.madelineartschool.com/shop/locations/madeline-island-locations/mix-it-up-mark-making/
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Unbinding the Visual Book
The book as an artform offers the opportunity to take your painting or collage into the sculptural and narrative realms. You can create books that read in sequential pages, books that are “read” all at once, or books that reveal hidden secrets in their folds and pockets. Paint, collage, fold, draw, print, and stitch your stories into accessible but artful book sculptures. There will be no blank books in this workshop! Create the images and book structure together into a story/object/visual feast.
Date: June 21st, 2025 - June 22nd, 2025
Time: 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Venue: Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont, United States
Contact: Erin Kaufman
Email: [email protected]
Fee: 500.
Event Open to Public
https://www.svac.org/class/unbinding-book/?wcs_timestamp=1750496400
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The Visual Sentence: Printmaking and Collage
Discover a whole new world of artistic possibility when you remove the boundaries of the canvas or substrate and string your pieces together like words in a sentence. You will make individual prints using the gel plate*, and OPEN acrylic paints on various papers. Each print is a part of a whole, not a whole image, and you can mix-and-match to your delight! You will make many prints in order to generate a plethora of possibilities when it comes to creating your sentences.
Date: June 2nd, 2025 - June 6th, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM - 04:00 PM
Venue: Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho, United States
Contact: Melanie Fales
Email: [email protected]
Event Open to Public
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The Seven Minute Collage
Overcome indecision, hesitation, fear of wrecking a piece, in this workshop that focuses on continuity and fluidity. The idea of working with ease and confidence all the time may be a myth, but working with a little more ease and a little more confidence is totally achievable. In this workshop you will learn practices that help you let go of perfectionism, let go of the tendency to self-judge and second-guess, and move forward with a whole new attitude. We’ll begin with small, quick collages, and gradually move on to more complex projects, as you expand and fine tune your visual acuity and expression with colorful and surprising collages.
Date: March 20th, 2025
Time: 09:30 AM - 04:30 PM
Venue: Art & Soul Retreat, Portland, Oregon, United States
Contact: Glenny Moir
Email: [email protected]
Fee: $100.
Event Open to Public
https://www.artandsoulretreat.com/retreat-pdx2025-6603-workshop.php
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Unbinding the Visual Book
The book as an artform offers the opportunity to take your painting or collage into the sculptural and narrative realms. You can create books that read in sequential pages, books that are ‘read’ all at once, or books that reveal hidden secrets in their folds and pockets. Paint, collage, fold, draw, print, and stitch your stories into accessible but artful book sculptures. There will be no blank books in this workshop! Create the images and book structure together into a story/object/visual feast.
Date: March 18th, 2025 - March 19th, 2025
Time: 09:30 AM - 04:30 PM
Venue: Art & Soul Retreat, Portland, Oregon, United States
Contact: Glenny Moir
Email: [email protected]
Fee: $365.
Event Open to Public
https://www.artandsoulretreat.com/retreat-pdx2025-6602-workshop.php
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Stained Tissue Paper Collage
Create luminous stained-glass-like tissue paper with acrylic paints, then learn how to make the most of the beautiful material you have created with collage techniques. We’ll explore which materials and methods work the best, how to vary the value and intensity of your colors, and then a few other techniques for developing design and pattern on your tissue papers. This workshop is open to beginners, but also appropriate for more experienced artists. Some knowledge of acrylic paints is helpful.
Date: March 17th, 2025
Time: 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Venue: Art & Soul Retreat, Portland, Oregon, United States
Contact: Glenny Moir
Email: [email protected]
Fee: 185.00
Event Open to Public
https://www.artandsoulretreat.com/retreat-pdx2025-6600-workshop.php
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Improvisational Drawing
Many people tend to plan out their drawing/painting/collage and have a hard time with the idea of not knowing how it will turn out. And yet, planning is one of the biggest obstacles to developing a deeper art practice. If you are constantly judging your work-in-progress against your planned or expected result, you can fail to see the beauty in what you are creating. Improvisational drawing - making it up as you go along, without a plan - gives you the opportunity to embrace the unexpected, discover new visual language, and surprise yourself.
Date: March 17th, 2025
Time: 06:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Venue: Art & Soul Retreat, Portland, Oregon, United States
Contact: Glenny Moir
Email: [email protected]
Fee: $100.
Event Open to Public
https://www.artandsoulretreat.com/retreat-pdx2025-6601-workshop.php
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Zoom in on How to Get Unstuck
Commitment to process is an important key to getting unstuck. We have a habit of focusing on results, setting expectations, and making judgements accordingly. We want to know how things will turn out; we want to avoid uncertainty by planning, so that we get it ‘right’. While this habit of planning for results is essential for most activities in our lives (I don’t dispute the value of planning!), it does seem to be one of the main reasons that we get stuck as artists. In this short session I will show you my favorite ways to get out of a rut and into a groove. These exercises help you let go of planning and judgement, and re-orient your perspective to one of curiosity and inquiry. Two of the practices – the ”quickies”, and ‘continuous collage’, we can do together in real time. The others I will demonstrate on pre-recorded video, and you can do on your own (they require drying time). This mini workshop is on zoom, so you can ask questions in the chat. I will get to as many of them as I can. T
Date: January 24th, 2025
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Venue: Zoom Online, , ,
Contact: Jane Davies
Email: [email protected]
Fee: 40.
Event Open to Public
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Expanding the Sketchbook
Each week you will make ten exploratory studies in response to the prompt as you what-if your way through multiple possibilities, using paint, collage, drawing, and more. Experimentation and curiosity are key to gaining freedom and fluidity in your art, and the sketchbook is your playground and laboratory. Don’t Make Art In Your Sketchbook! Make marks, pose visual questions, try variations on your theme, and experiment. You will find the more you let go and play, the more ideas you will discover. This workshop is open to artists of all levels, though it’s best if you have some experience with your materials.
Date: January 7th, 2025 - March 25th, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Venue: Zoom Online, , ,
Contact: Jane Davies
Email: [email protected]
Fee: $300.
Event Open to Public