Join Nancie King Mertz to find your artistic inspiration at the Anderson Japanese Gardens, a botanical garden encompassing streams, waterfalls and winding pathways. This Pastel-Immersion Workshop will be an extraordinary opportunity to paint with pastels with the beauty of spring. Short demos will be offered throughout the workshop to help clarify the techniques, as needed.

This is a rare opportunity to paint in gorgeous landscape and return at day’s end to ArtDeTriumph, a European-style retreat for a Happy Hour critique. Lodging is also available at ArtDeTriumph which can accommodate a maximum of eight guests in 4 shared rooms with twin beds.

Day One: 6/9/22 Demo to begin promptly at 10am at Anderson Gardens. Painting & individual instruction allowed until 4:00pm. Return to ArtDeTriumph for the Happy Hour critique. Dinner can be on-your-own or with the group at a local restaurant.

Day Two: 6/10/22 Demo to begin promptly at 10am at Anderson Gardens. Painting & individual instruction allowed until 4:00pm. Return to ArtDeTriumph for the Happy Hour critique. Dinner can be on-your-own or with the group at a local restaurant.

Day Three: 6/11/22 Demo to begin promptly at 10am at Anderson Gardens. Painting & individual instruction allowed until 4:00pm. Return to ArtDeTriumph for the Happy Hour critique. Dinner can be on-your-own or with the group at a local restaurant.

About the Artist: An award winning artist, Nancie has spent her lifetime painting in oil and pastel. Nancie teaches across the US and internationally and is on the faculty for the Plein Air Convention and IAPS Convention. The Jack Richeson Co. offers her Urban Landscape Set and Atmospheric Landscape sets of 80 hand-selected pastels as well as 2 for the coastal palette: Stunning Skies & Water and Lush Coastal Foliage. Streamline Publishing filmed videos of her painting techniques for Lildahl DVD release. She has been named the 2022 Guest of Honor by Art du Pastel en France, with a show of her work featured in Giverny, France in May.

Nancie has traveled to nearly 20 countries and around the US for inspiration and teaching, however, Chicago remains one of her favorite cities to explore and paint, where she was twice named “Artist of the Year”. Nancie produces approximately 150 paintings each year, many on-site. Her husband, Ron, publishes her sold originals in Giclee prints & cards and they own ArtDeTriumph, a gallery/frame shop/learning center.

Visit Nancie at www.nanciekingmertz.com.

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