REGISTER HERE *Please don’t wait to register! Workshops that do not meet the minimum number of students 3 days prior to the session date will be canceled or rescheduled. Signing up early helps us ensure that the workshop can take place. Thank you! CANOPY GLOW: An Abstract Leaves Painting Workshop 10:30am-1:30pm Ready to loosen up, layer boldly, and let your painting bloom with light? Let your marks grow wild. Inspired by the lush greens, sunlit yellows, and overlapping leaf shapes of a living canopy, this energizing acrylic class invites you to explore leaves through abstraction—focusing on color, rhythm, and movement rather than realism. Think silhouettes, shadows, and organic forms floating across fields of vibrant color. You’ll learn how to build glowing backgrounds, layer translucent and opaque shapes, and create strong botanical forms using brushes, masking, and intuitive mark-making. Play with contrast, soft edges, and pops of unexpected color to give your work depth and vitality—like sunlight filtering through trees. Come ready to experiment, simplify forms, and paint with freedom. Celebrate Earth Day by capturing the feeling of growth, breath, and green life on the canvas. 🎨 Some painting experience recommended 🖌️ Fee includes $10 supply fee. All supplies included 🧤 Bring a smock and gloves 🍎 Bring lunch to fuel your creativity if desired Instructor Information: Renée Rey, an award-winning artist born in Sagamihara, Japan, lives and works in Delray Beach, Florida. Rey’s artwork has been recognized in national awards and exhibitions by notable museum and gallery professionals including Jade Dellinger, Director of Exhibits & Collections, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Fort Myers, FL; Julie Sasse, Chief Curator, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ; Erin Wright, Commissioning Editor and Producer, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; and Gisela Carbonell, Curator, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, . Honored with the 2024 Dina Baker Fund Grant from the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County, Rey’s work has graced galleries across the globe. Recent solo shows include Bailey Contemporary Arts Gallery, Pompano Beach, FL, Tauni De Lessep Gallery at Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, FL, and the Hammond Hall Gallery, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL. Her group exhibitions span the Baker Museum, Naples, FL, Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY, Studio 33, Spain, Art Brut Biennale, Netherlands, and Project Space Brut, South Korea. Rey was awarded artist residencies at Bailey Contemporary Arts (2023-2024), School of Visual Arts in New York (2019), and Sun Peaks Center for Art and Sustainability (2016). Her art is in the collections of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., New York, NY, First Albany, New York, NY, and Wasmer Art Collection at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL. She served as the International Curator for the 2021 art exhibition “Lo Cierto Es Lo Incierto” held in Soriano, Uruguay. A dynamic lect...
