Beaver Pond, 24x28. Oil.
The past year has been a very busy one for me professionally and personally. 2019 ushered forth some tremendous opportunities for artistic growth. In April, I traveled to Queenstown, New Zealand for a fantastic workshop with Jill Carver and participated in her workshop in Ketchum in the Fall.
With this focus, I have decided to hand the reins over for the Wood River Workshops to Sherri Carter, a fantastic painter herself…and VERY organized. These workshops have brought the best landscape painters in the country to Sun Valley over the past 5 years: Jill Carver (her 6th year here in June!), Skip Whitcomb, Kathryn Stats, G. Russell Case and Michael Lynch. It was, truly, an honor to have these artists teach here, study with them and to get to know each one a personal level. We will continue to offer these excellent plein air workshops with our partners, Wood River Fine Art and Randi Kanellitsas.
I am now focusing on painting the landscape near my home - southwestern mountains of Idaho - to spend time painting, studying and improving my art both outdoors and in the studio. I feel I have had some breakthroughs with my work now that I have more time to devote to painting and learning, and forever grateful to the amazing mentors I have in Jill and Skip.
I recently received word that I am of 58 artists selected to participate in Plein Air Easton 2020. This is such an honor as it is juried event, highly competitive and regarded as the top plein air festival in the country (6-8,000 people in attendance - yikes!) I am so appreciative to the organizers of PAE and congratulate all the wonderful artists who were selected.
Thank you for visiting my website and please come by my studio if you ever find yourself in Sun Valley, Idaho!
Cheers,
Kathy Marsh Riedinger