Princess d’Annam debuts first annual Painter’s Retreat for novices and intermediate artists (Vietnam)
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Princess d’Annam debuts first annual Painter’s Retreat for novices and intermediate artists (Vietnam)
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Category: Asia Pacific - Vietnam
This is a press release selected by our editorial committee and published online for free on 2010-09-13
American Fulbright fellow and painter to conduct 3-day workshop, interpret natural beauty of Ke Ga Bay
A San Francisco-born painter of Vietnamese heritage will lead a Painters’ Retreat workshop en plein air at Princess d’Annam Resort & Spa Nov. 10 – 14.
Over four days and three nights, student-guests will position easels on the shores of Ke Ga Bay, taking in one of Vietnam’s most pristine shorelines, its most iconic lighthouse, and one of Southeast Asia’s finest ginger gardens.
“Everyone who visits Ke Ga Bay leaves with an indelible impression of this spectacular natural landscape,” said Jean-Philippe Beghin, the resort’s general manager. “Now, with guidance from a renowned American art instructor, Ms. Tammy Nguyen, they’ll have the opportunity to leave with a visual interpretation of this setting.”
Nguyen is a graduate of the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City and traveled to Vietnam on a Fulbright Grant to study traditional Vietnamese lacquer painting in 2007. Her preferred medium is oil, but her investigations of Vietnamese culture have journeyed through lacquer, silk and even embroidery.
“En plein air, or open air, painting has been enormously influential in Vietnam and continues to inspire many of today’s young artists,” said Nguyen. “Monet and Renoir were guiding stars for such Vietnamese masters as Nguyen Sang, Bui Xuan Phai, and Nguyen Gia Tri, and today for many of Vietnam’s fledgling painters.”
Beghin expect this first annual Painter’s Retreat in Ke Ga Bay will attract would-be and novice painters from Hong Kong, Singapore and other regional capitals. Indeed, the spark for development of the retreat itself was struck by guests who imagined out loud the possibility of just such a retreat.
“Resorts these days need to do more than serve as a blank canvas for someone’s holiday,” said Beghin. “We need to provide the tools for the making of memories, as well, and this Painters’ Retreat is our gambit.”
The tools of en plein air — brushes, oil paints, linseed oil, smoks, easels et al — are but one of the amenities included in the package developed by Princess d’Annam. In three days of instruction, Nguyen will work with students to develop texture, color and light.
The Retreat allows ample time for communal instruction and one-on-one assessments and assistance by Nguyen. She has taught art to students in the United States and Vietnam.
At the conclusion of the Retreat, students will be able to share their interpretations and experiences in a salon show.
The Retreat bundles three four-hour seminars, artists materials, three-nights’ accommodation, daily breakfast, two cocktail dinners with the instructor and a spa treatment in a US $1,525 package. Additional charges for supplementary guests sharing the same room, but not the workshop, are $240 per person.
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