Scott Conary
Finding the Light, Losing the Edge
September 25-27, 2026
Tuition: $550
Skill Level: All Levels​
WORKSHOP CLOSED
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​How we perceive and paint light is fundamental to representational painting—and perhaps the most difficult aspect to master. In this workshop, using the still life and photo reference, we’ll explore how to see and use light to construct a painting from conception through execution.
With an emphasis on creating a sense of form and atmosphere, we’ll push paint, find and lose edges, discuss and critique, and—along the way—possibly change how we see.
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WORKSHOP CLOSED
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Meet the Artist
Scott Conary
Raised where the East Coast suburbs filtered into the woods and farms of Wyeth country, Scott Conary (Rhode Island School of Design, BFA ’93) creates oil paintings of everyday objects and places with which we have complicated and often ambiguous relationships. Pulled from their context, these objects say something about how we interact with the world and one another. These are stories of the arbitrary nature of beauty, of melancholy, of fleeting triumph, and the camouflage of time. Whether it be the mess and splendor of the broken egg, the transience of the earnest flower, the rippling folds of the improvised shelter, or aging architecture succumbing to gravity, they are expressed in paint walking the line between intuition and technique, between abstraction and realism.
Fueling and inspiring this work is his young daughter’s battle with complicated heart defects, her experiences with disability, and the impact this has had on those around her. This has directed his focus toward the narratives and tensions in the everyday, and is why he wanders deeper into the thicket of representational work. As an extension of his love of paint and the simple narrative, Conary gives lectures and runs workshops around the country and online. He and his family live in Portland, Oregon.
Conary is represented by the Gallery 1261 (Denver, CO), Bowersock Gallery (Provincetown, MA), Principle Gallery (Alexandria, VA), Turner Fine Art (Jackson, WY), and the Charlestown Gallery (Charlestown, RI)
