Jay Brooks 2020

We continue to follow NYS COVID-19 Guidelines for public events. We have adequate outdoor space to allow participants for safe distancing. Masks may be required during group demos

About the Workshops

Our goal will be to see and “capture our first reactions to a natural setting” through the use of line, mass and tone in our landscape sketches and work quickly towards nature-inspired compositions around us in the abundant beauty alongside the Willowemoc Creek in the Sullivan County Catskills. We hope to produce 2-4 plein air paintings each day.

WORKSHOP FEES:
$100.00 per day:
Artists will bring along gear and materials and 2-3 panels is suggested per day

$25.00 per day, Painting Materials Kit (optional):
For beginners or your convenience, materials kit includes everything needed for the workshop (oil paints, palettes, brushes, cups, mediums, solvents, standing plein air easel plus 2-3 primed panels for finished to take home

Registration with limited enrollment : 8 PERSONS
Materials list PDF available with registration confirmation

Schedule

July  11 RAIN CANCELLATION
July  18 Painting: 9AM to 12PM, hour lunch break, 1PM to 4PM
July  25 Painting: 9AM to 12PM, hour lunch break, 1PM to 4PM

9AM START:
After making your turn off Old Route 17, pass over the one-lane bridge towards the CFFCM Gift Shop and turn right following our signage to rear parking beyond the second building on your left, the Wulff Gallery. From there we’ll be a short walk to our AM painting location. BYO lunch, outdoor picnic tables and access to restroom facilities available.

Livingston Manor restaurants are nearby offering takeout with pre-orders recommended.

Extras to bring along: bug repellent, sun umbrella, sunscreen, sun hats, water, and folding stool

Cancellation Policies

Workshop cancellations made 7 days or more in advance of the event date, will receive a 100% refund.
Cancellations made within 3 - 6 days will incur a 50% fee unless filled by a waitlisted attendee. Cancellations made within 48 hours to the event are non-refundable. All dates are subject to change given weather conditions and rain dates will be no less than one week in advance. Non-acceptance of a scheduled rain date will incur a 50% fee unless filled by a waitlisted attendee.

About the Artist

Growing up on 90 acres of farmland in Pavilion NY, Jay Brooks has always had the landscape as an integral part of his life and art. At the young age of 14, Brooks began painting under the classical apprenticeship of John Piesley and the plein air instruction of Charles Movalli, a disciple of the late Emile Gruppe. Brooks was also introduced to the pre-impressionist styles of Corot, George Inness and Asher B. Durand.

In 1988, Brooks received his B.F.A. from Carnegie-Mellon University and in 1990 he received his M.F.A. from Columbia University. Being removed from his familiar bucolic surroundings, Brooks studied and painted the industrial environments of Pittsburgh and New York City.After teaching art in New York City, Brooks moved back to upstate NY in 1993. Here, Brooks is surrounded by countless varieties of scenes from around the northeastern US. His paintings include a variety of images from depictions of the New England shore to the countryside and small towns of upstate New York.

Jay Brooks is currently shows at the River Gallery in Narrowsburg, NY and also shows in the Chelsea area of New York City, Lambertville NJ, Cody Wyoming, Rochester NY, and Sullivan County NY. In 2001, Brooks entered the Arts for the Parks competition in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and had four paintings in the top 100. In 2017, 2018 and 2019 Brooks was a participant in the Cape Ann Plein Air competition and Plein Air Easton 2018, 2019 and 2020. Brooks is also a member of the Salmagundi Club in New York City. Although Brooks main interest in the landscape resides primarily in the scenery of upstate NY, he has also painted scenes in the American West, Puerto Rico, the Austrian and German Alps, Northern Italy, Ireland and the out- back and rain forests of Australia.

GETTING THERE (see map)