Painting Workshop is a popular term for one or multi-day seminars in which painting is practised intensively. They refer to classes of varying sizes where the practice is shared; they are therefore also social events and typically strengthen relationships between participants.
“Expression cannot be the translation of a clear thought, because clear thoughts are those that have already been expressed by ourselves or others. “Conception” cannot precede “execution.” Before expression, there is nothing but a vague fever, and only the work, once completed and understood, will prove that something rather than nothing had to be found.” M. Merleau-Ponty
The universal ability to recognize beauty, the ability to “express” it and therefore to “show” it, lies dormant in people because they move within the constraints of time, within the meshes of necessity. But it is precisely this limitation that makes us capable of the effort of expression, which can reevaluate our existence: for we are here to express things.
The meaning of painting en plein air today does not lie in a vague “inspiration from nature,” in capturing the light of a moment or the spirit of a place.
No. Painting en plein air is first and foremost an experience, exquisitely pictorial, from which arises a fever that never leaves, and there is no other way to experience it than to rid ourselves of everything else, especially the idea of making a “painting.”
Laura Grosso
PAINTING MASTERCLASS
“En plein air”
Laura Grosso & Anthony Lombardi
Vetralla (VT) October 2025
Friday 3rd – Sunday 5th
Observation and synthesis
Large-format alla prima composition
…4 en plein air sessions, 10 hours of painting in total
…2 discussions, 3 hours of theory
…4 meals + 2 breakfasts
…2 overnight stays
…Open Studio “Rome Art Week”, October 20 – 25, 2025 / “Della Pittura” collective
Info: +39 3495463465 / anthony-lombardi.com
