Edgewater Gallery and Philip Frey
present a summer workshop

Vermont: Plein Air Color & Composition

August 14th & 15th, 2025
Located at Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, VT

Registration deadline: May 1st, 2025

Medium: Oil, watercolor, gouache or acrylic
Level: All levels welcome (students should be familiar with their medium and tools)

Description:
Edgewater Gallery is pleased to offer a dynamic plein air painting workshop with artist Philip Frey, designed for dedicated landscape painters. Philip will
present essential composition tools and a color system for choosing your color palette designed to help students create more consistent and successful paintings.
The workshop will be held in the picturesque landscape of Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, Vermont located on the serene shores of Lake Champlain. (can you provide a link to click on to take people to the Shelburne Farms home page?) Each day will start early with an on-site painting session to include a lesson or demo, followed by
lunch and a mid-day break, and an early afternoon session to include a demo or Critique.

Fee: $450

To Register:All levels welcome but students should be familiar with their medium, tools and easel. Registration deadline is May 1, 2025. Class size limited to 12.

Or register by calling 802-989-7419, or emailing [email protected]

Lodging & Meals: If you wish to stay on location at Shelburne Farms, it is advised to book your stay as soon as possible. Edgewater will provide a picnic lunch for participants each day.

Artist Statement:
My primary goal is to enhance the artistic development of my students, fostering their unique approach to painting while emphasizing the foundations
of painting—drawing, composition, paint handling, and color theory— rather than adhering to a specific artistic style. It’s my intention to inspire artists and engender confidence in their painting by giving them practical tools and feedback.

About the Instructor:
In the past twenty years, Philip Frey has developed into one of Maine’s finest landscape painters. Known as a brilliant colorist, Frey paints Maine’s harbors and islands with a bold and sensitive palette that captures the light and moods of his home state, from the streets of Ellsworth and Portland to Monhegan and Acadia National Park. Philip is known for his engaging, illuminating and positive teaching style. He is skilled at addressing his student’s abilities and helping them mature as an artist. His monograph, Philip Frey: Here and Now, by Daniel Kany and Carl Little was published in 2018. He exhibits at Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, Greenhut Galleries, Edgewater Gallery, and Carver Hill Gallery and will be featured in group exhibitions at both Greenhut Galleries and Courthouse Gallery Fine Art, in the spring and summer of 2025.

*Student Testimonials: “I have taken several of Philip’s workshops and initially thought that they would be redundant but I was wrong. His different approaches to plein air, figure drawing and still life kept each fresh and challenging. I enjoyed each one and learned new concepts as well as reviewing old ones.” — M. Beaulieu of Bernard, ME.

“Philip Frey is not only an inspiringly dynamic artist but a patient and insightful teacher. His workshop transformed the way I look at the world and how I now approach the ever daunting blank canvas….which is now with confident intention! Having access to and learning from an artist of his caliber is truly a gift.”— Queenette Santiago, Petaluma, CA

For more information about our spring workshop with Susan Raber Bray call us at 802-989-7419 or email us at [email protected].