Workshop Content: Loosen up and expand your creative process. Would you like to paint with more freedom or feeling? Then this workshop is for you. We will explore movement in abstract paintings by using line, shape, value, color and other elements of art to create big and bold expressive abstract composition. By using a variety of mark making techniques and expressive drawing, creates artwork that communicates memories, ideas, and emotions. The class will include demonstrations on drawing, painting intuitively, composition and finding boldness in a painting. We will practice skill building exercises using your unique marks and automatic drawing.

Supply List: *Acrylic paint – warm and cool colors, black, white and any colors you want to use.
*A variety of mark making tools – pencils, charcoal, colored pencils, acrylic markers, artist crayons, etc.
*Pencil sharpener
*Matte Medium
*Brushes varying sizes (large inexpensive brush from hardware store would be nice)
*Palette knife
*Other implements you like to use in painting
*Two large canvases or boards. Examples: 30 x 40, 36×36
*Container for water
*Spray bottle
*Paper towels and/or rags
*Palette (can be freezer paper)
*Painters tape
*Cardboard that will hold a sheet of paper that is 30×22 (provided by instructor)
*Anything else you would like to bring
*Suggestion: Take a trip to a dollar store and find inexpensive things that can make marks on the canvas. Kitchen department has interesting things.

Biography: Ginger Oglesby, a native Southerner, began studying art in the 6th grade. Saturday mornings were spent in art class learning the fundamentals of drawing, color, composition and medium. In the summer, classes were moved outside for landscapes at Nashville’s Belle Meade Mansion. This continued all through high school under the tutelage of Juanita Green Parks, Director of Art, at Watkins Institute in Nashville, TN. Ginger’s education continued to be concentrated in creative endeavors. She received a BFA from the University of Tennessee in Studio Art with a minor in Dance. After college, Ginger’s first job was with a modern dance company, Sidewalk Dance Theater, where she was a member for ten years. Retiring from the dance company, Ginger missed the movement of dance so she poured movement into her paintings. Her work became more loose and free until they became pure abstraction.

Ginger creates dynamic abstract paintings. She allows movement of color, line, form, tone and texture as they interact to be the subject of her paintings. She has the ability to suspend reality and trust her intuition as she creates abstract paintings that result in primitive arrangements of color and shape. Art critic, Brian Sherwin, commented on Ginger’s paintings.
“Ginger’s energetic use of color demands attention. Ginger meshes fiery colors with colder colors, if you will- works that are complex in their simplicity. A startling exchange of color is established. That visual choice reflects Ginger’s connection with order/chaos of nature.”

Ginger prefers not to guide the viewer’s interpretation, rather she captures the viewer’s attention, draws them in, keeps them looking and generates an emotional response. “I use the canvas to tell the bold and sometimes very subtle abstract stories of movement. Beginning with a loose composition and adding layer on layer, my paintings naturally unfold and expose an intuitive dance. These images capture the vibrant attitudes of the human heart. Soaring Leaping Turning!”

Ginger’s work has been exhibited in galleries and art shows including:

dk Gallery, Marietta, Georgia
dk2 Gallery, Homewood, Alabama
York and Friends, Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee
The Glided Grasshopper, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Art Alley, Homewood, Alabama
Group Shows dk Gallery Marietta, Georgia 2016 -2017
Featured Artist York and Friends Nashville, Tennessee May 2017
Featured Artist The Art Show at BA Brentwood, Tennessee 2016
Duo Show States of Matter District Gallery Knoxville, Tennessee 2016
Solo Show Market Central, Memphis, Tennessee 2014
LeQuire and Company, Nashville, Tennessee
Button and Petter, Douglas, Michigan
UpStairs Gallery, Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee
Harding Art Show, Nashville, Tennessee
The Art Event, Nashville, Tennessee
Bold Brush Winner – Outstanding Abstract December 2012
Fine Arts in Brentwood Show and Sale, Brentwood, Tennessee
Old Natchez House Gallery, Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee
Merging of the Arts, Franklin, Tennessee

Instructor Website: Ginger Oglesby Fine Art