Live / Zoom seminars with Stuart Shils
Exploring the saturation of the visual moment.
“It feels like you’ve taken my brain out, rotated it 180 degrees, and put it back! … in a good way!”
“And that's probably the goal--not to impose a single way of "doing" art, but a way of thinking about what you're doing, breaking the mold, opening yourself up to change.”
“You have reignited a love of drawing in me that I haven't felt since childhood.”
— A.W. (comment from a recent class participant)
The whole point of study... is to stand before the world in awe...
Upcoming Classes
Reframing the Ordinary
naming the moment without words
March 8 - 10, 2024, on zoom
Reframing the Ordinary on zoom is a hands-on, participatory seminar for illuminating how you carry yourself within the choreography of paying attention and how that attention carries you.
Patience, Play, and Priorities
a hands-on studio seminar examining what matters in paint
Feb 2 - 4, 2024, on zoom
This is a carefully shaped playground/sandbox seminar, hands on painting time, examining ways in which we come closer to ourselves from a variety of directions.
Stuart Shils
Over the years, the emotionality and lushness of observation has fueled a variety of visual and graphic responses, from outdoor painting and drawing, to constructing small objects with wood and paint in three dimensionality exploring memory and traces of lingering aromas. I lead with my eyes and try to pay attention to taking notice of what I don’t know is there. And if a tree falls across the path, it’s not a problem, the point is to find a way over or around.
what are your tools for stretching your imagination?
Working Privately.
I’m available for working privately with you over Zoom, Skype, phone, or whatever platform you prefer to examine or explore any aspect of your studio practice. I’ve been doing this for many years with people at varying stages of their visual lives, in other parts of the world and in the States.
