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Camille Przewodek: Weekend With the Masters Instructor
Camille Przewodek is a plein air colorist based in Petaluma,
California, who received her B.F.A. in illustration from the Academy of Art
University, in San Francisco, and a B.F.A. in painting from Wayne State
University, in Detroit. She studied with Henry Hensche—the assistant to the
famed American Impressionist Charles Hawthorne—at the Cape School of Art, in
Provincetown, Massachusetts, for many years and credits him with opening her
eyes to a new way of seeing and painting color and light.
Today, Przewodek carries on Hensche’s tradition by teaching
his theories in workshops. Unlike French Impressionists, American impressionism
focused greater attention on the solidity of form. This was part of Hensche’s
training; rather than drawing objects, then “coloring them in,” Przewodek
learned to see the myriad subtleties of tones and values that create form.
Przewodek doesn’t quibble about her paintings being happy.
She won’t even set up her easel unless there is something about the secne that
grabs her heart and gnaws her aesthetic adoration of light on color. “If I don’t
care, I don’t paint,” she says bluntly.
At the heart of Przewodek’s paintings is a transformative
leaning. Each time she stops to paint a scene she approaches it without baggage,
emulating an almost childlike vision. She relies on the sensitivity of her eye
and the clarity of her memory to keep the scene alive as she intuitively reaches
for opaque pigments that transform into translucent atmosphere when juxtaposed
on canvas.
Przewodek has been the subject of several solo shows in
various West Coast galleries, and her work has been featured in numerous group
shows, including the Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational, the
California Art Club’s Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, and the Catharine
Lorillard Wolfe Art Club’s Annual Exhibition. The artist founded the L’Atelier
aux Couleurs, in Petaluma, and is a popular workshop instructor. For more
information on Przewodek, visit her website.
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