Artist Eleanor Conover will lead an open-ended drawing workshop focused on the relationship between text and image, using the built and natural surroundings of the Langlais Art Preserve as a point of departure. We'll ask: how can an observational drawing practice extend beyond a single, illusionistic image of a landscape? Beginning with perceptual drawing and sensory notation, participants will be encouraged to build on this work with text, texture, and collage, resulting in hybridized, open-ended drawings that can be understood as a record of place and time. 

About Eleanor: Eleanor Conover (she/her) is an artist whose work engages with the physical and material conditions of painting as a metaphor for environmental space and experience. Based in Topsham, she teaches painting and drawing at Bowdoin College and has a lifelong tie to the landscape of coastal Maine. https://www.eleanorconover.com/

Watershed Workshops have a pay what you can ($5+) registration fee, to help offset materials costs. If this fee is a barrier, please get in touch with us at langlais@grlt.org—we want everyone who is interested to be able to participate.