Gundula Jacobs Master Still Life and Floral Workshop March 2014 and Lanscape Painting in the Loire Valley, France June-2014

Join us for this rare and wonderful opportunity to paint Still Life and Flowers in our beautiful studio at BACAA. Learn to create beautiful paintings using solid methods with master painter and instructor Gundula Jacobs. Gundula has been a life long artist who’s work conveys exquisite beauty of the natural forms.

Course description Still Life Painting.

We work in oils. The style is contemporary realism, entirely based on observation without using preconceived ideas or formula painting. We work a la prima, Italian, meaning  to the first , a traditional technique that paints the desired effect almost entirely in fresh paint without applying a succession of layers (glazing). Even if we see everything we don’t notice many things therefore learning how to paint means learning to perceive and interpret the subject. For example it is important to find the relationships between the painted tonalities, that is colored values. A special exercise will enable the student to find them and to fine-tune his or her color perception. Besides training of perception the painter will learn technical skills, methods how to actually paint what he or she perceives. That includes the proper use of brushes to make roundness, treat edges, to obtain an illusion of atmosphere. After all, we paint light diffusion on a subject rather than things. We will also explore the action of light and examine structure and its importance for realistic painting. A weekly one or half day session to study flower painting. A special challenge, because flowers are living things that unite many drawing and painting problems.

The students choose a still life to work from among 3 setups, offering different themes and types of textures to study. Glass, metal, wood, pottery, fruit etc. One of the still life will include drapery, which is an excellent subject to study light on form, structure, movement, the same problems we encounter in working from the live model. Daily syllabus will be given to students.

Gundula Jacobs is a highly experienced artist, born in Germany in 1959. She emigrated to San Francisco, USA, in 1978. In 1990 she moved to France and permanently established herself in the beautiful region of the Loire Valley, Her classical, however contemporary still life as well as typically French landscape paintings are inspired by seasonal changes and the beauty of the rural Loire environment. Art Studies 1986-1987  San Jose State University, CA 1987  Margaret Leighton Studio, San Francisco 1987-1988  New York Academy of Art 1988-1991  Art Student’s League of New York 1991-1995  Ecole Albert Defois, with Ted Seth Jacobs Exhibitions 996  Magidson Gallery, New York 2000 Cultural Center, Palace of UNESCO, Beirut, Lebanon 2001  Hôtel Intercontinental, Genève, Suisse  2002  Galerie D’Outre Maine, Angers, France  2002   Péristyle Molière du Théâtre, Saumur 2002 Salon de Trélazé,  first prize 2002   Salle des Arts, Doué-La-Fontaine 2003  Hôtel de Ville, Cholet 2003  Hôtel des Vins,  La Godeline, Angers 2003  Brigham Gallery, Nantucket, USA 2003  Château des Carmes, La Flèche 2008  Salon de Challain-La-Potherie, first prize 2008  Quidley & Co. Gallery, Boston, USA 2009  Chapelle des Cordeliers, Parthenay 2010  Château de Maupassant, Vihiers 2011, Les Halles, Beaufort -En-Vallée  2012  Galerie des Arcades, Bressuire Since 2004 Gundula Jacobs exhibits regularly in her Anjou region (Loire Valley). Her work is  represented in private collections in France, Germany,  Holland, Switzerland,  Austria, England, Ireland as well as Canada, USA and Mexico.

March 10- 28, 2014 10:45-5:00pm