Outdoor Painting Workshop, Contoocook, NEW HAMPSHIRE 

September 19, 20, 21
Friday Saturday and Sunday

Painting and sketching outside you will investigate the natural landscape to develop your observational skills. Drawing and painting exercises will be given to help students understand the distinctive shapes and colors that exist in the natural world. Thumbnail sketches will help you to understand a simplified sense of space and composition, without an over analysis of detail. Individual attention will be given to each participant, along with a group lecture about historical and contemporary artists that are inspired by nature. Includes painting demonstrations, group discussions and blueberry scones served each morning with coffee!

EXPERIENCE LEVEL: Some experience helpful but not necessary, a deep desire to learn to paint outside helpful, beginner, intermediate, and advanced artists welcome. Experience with the creative practice of making art. Perfect for all artists who need a jump start, need to be around other artists and have a love of nature. This workshop will help feed your creative life.

Materials are not provided but a list will be provided. Small table, chairs, portable easels and wagons and treents for working out of the sun and/or rain will be available.

HOUSING: Materials and housing are not provided but a list of materials needed and and a list of inviting local inns or hotels to stay for the weekend will be provided after signing up. Lunch can be picked up each day within 5 minutes of the farm in downtown Contoocook.

Price: $575

CALL: 413.563.5912 for more information

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CANCELLATION POLICY: If a workshop is cancelled due to insufficient enrollment, students will be notified ahead of the start date and will get a full refund. Payment is due upon registration. A full refund, less a cancellation fee of 10% of the cost of the class, will be given to students who withdraw from a class at least 20 days before it begins. No portion of the tuition will be refunded within 20 days of class or workshop start date. Notification of withdrawal must be made in writing to Kathleen Dunn Jacobs.

IRELAND, COUNTY MAYO - (THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL)

Ireland Painting Workshop And Tour Led By Kathleen Dunn Jacobs

May 28-Jun 7 2025 (This Workshop is Full)

  • The focus will be the art and culture of Western Ireland.

    • • Sign up early for reduced rate on the first five single rooms!!!

  • Nine days with Kathleen Jacobs your artistic instructor and Cormac Cullen your personal local Irish guide.
  • Tour limited to 12 passengers.
  • Experience Ireland with majority of evenings in one hotel, all en-suite accommodations, and water view rooms.
  • Relaxed & flexible itinerary.
  • Impromptu visits with local artists.

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Your home away from home is a lovely hotel on the Quay (harbor) of Westport, County Mayo. Not far from the quaint town center, with its many shops and pubs. 

There is a pool and optional spa facilities are available.

Join artist and painting instructor Kathleen Jacobs for a painting workshop excursion to County Mayo, Ireland! Your group will have your own personal local Irish guide, Cormac Cullen, based in Westport, Ireland. You will be taken to the beautiful countryside to explore this ancient and mythical country. There are spectacular monastic and megalithic ruins to seek out in your daily adventures. Return to your lovely hotel after painting all day to dine, converse and mingle with fellow artists. You can also partake in evenings listening to Irish musicians play traditional music in the local pubs. Depending on their schedule, a tour may be provided at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, located in Ballycastle. The attendees loved the visit with them last year.


We invite you to immerse yourself in an enriching and creative experience that will expand your painting practice and experience. Students of beginner, intermediate to advanced levels are welcome, open to all painters using oil, watercolor, acrylic or gouache.

Kathleen Jacobs will provide individualized instruction during plein air excursions, demonstrations, discussions and presentations that will provide the format for an intensive exciting learning experience. The focus is on the landscape of County Mayo, where you will experience first-hand the beauty and richness of Ireland. Jacobs will emphasize the importance of drawing and composition as a foundation of a painting. Working small, participants will work to create work with a spirit of place. Her teaching emphasizes looking at the landscape and to understand the formal elements of painting, shape, color, space, form while responding to the grace, order and beauty that is in front of you. There will be ample opportunity to discuss each other’s work and to discuss other international painters throughout history to enrich our experience in Ireland.