Exploring Texture, Color & Mark Making in Abstracts
Ethereal Memories, 2022, Mixed Media on Wood Panel. 60×60 inch
GORDON STUDER
Willow Pond Workshop June 21 - June 24, 2025
Breaking free from creative constraints often means letting go of the need for perfection or rigid structure. Abstract painting thrives on spontaneity, artist & instructor Gordon Studer encourages creative ideas to flow freely, without overthinking. Creative flow is about trusting your instincts, embracing accidents, and letting go of any preconceived notions about how the painting "should" look.
Studer’s guidance encourages artists to embrace expressive mark-making, gain poise and adopt the morale that one needs to build depth and finish work with satisfaction.
Gordon Studer’s earthy, confident abstracts are rooted in his discipline as an award-winning commercial illustrator, lending his work a strong, graphic cadence. The result speaks to some of Studer’s themes of liminal experience, interstitial time, and dreamscapes in deliberate forms in black atop a palette of ochre, sky blue, and crushed clays.
Studer, both seasoned as an artist and teacher has a clear and cool approach to crafting dynamic compositions and he clarifies how to build a strong foundation before mastering value and color.
This June workshop is fully booked but be sure to inquire to get on the waitlist and stay tuned!
About the Artist
Gordon Studer studied fine art at Penn State, he then went on to teach at the California College of the Arts, and enjoyed a 25 year career telling visual stories for Fortune 500 corporate clients and major media outlets. His background is evident as he applies an intentionality to his paintings, delivering on a specific narrative, and invites the viewer to a purposeful encounter. Studer once experienced a bout of complete amnesia, allowing him to refresh his perception of the natural world and question concepts such as imagination, dream, and recollection. Studer is based in Sausalito, California, regularly exhibiting his work nationally and internationally. He can be found teaching workshops in his studio or viewing art at galleries whenever he has the chance.
