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Symposium LUUA 2015/ Pargas/ Estland
Artist Marianne Gielen from Berlin arrived to art camp with her
husband Michael. About Marianne we can say that her works are so
colorful as her personality.
Last week could be seen painting people at Palamuse and Luua.
The paintings of artists and art lovers from four countries were
shown in express exhibition on Friday afternoon in Palamuse
4th summer art camps at Luua have been organized by the Jõgeva
Watercolor Gallery. This time 23 professional and amateur
artists had arrived from Estonia, Finland, Lithuania and
Germany. Estonians had arrived from different locations: Jõgeva,
Tallinn, Narva, Rakvere, Valga, Häädemeeste. Although the
artists were so diffirent, the company was very friendly. They
had great accommodation at hostel of Luua forestry school. Who
wished could paint on their own, who needed got teaching. Last
Tuesday, owner of the gallery „Kala“ and aquarellist Gennadi
Lapin, took five or six novices in watercolor painting and dealt
with them for seven hours: they spoke of the history and the
principles of watercolors, showed a wide variety of techniques,
and painted a picture of an exemplary one. For those who love to
paint with acrylic paints, Gennadi Lapin invited from Tallinn to
visit his good friend, artist Sergei Minin, who carried out
acrylic painting master class last Monday. One of the important
things he taught, was mixing colors. “Often, they tend to paint
directly from the tube with “ raw “ acrylic paints.
Unfortunately, it does not end with the best results, “said
Gennadi Lapin.
Every evening they gathered at the school commonroom to review
and analyze the paintings. Last Thursday, however, was a common
outing to Jõgeva, to visit two exhibitions: the city library had
pictures of Moscows and St. Petersburgs painters, and in
cultural center there were Robert Suvi and his students’ works.
On Friday at Palamuse community center there was for five hours
the exhibition of the art campers works. For locals it might
have been nice to look at how the different countries artists
see their home.
Wide profile tractor driver water colorist
Each camp participant deserves probably a separate newspaper
story. Saima Jakobson living at Häädemeeste, this statement
certainly applies. She has been a tractor driver for 24 years,
participated in some plough competitions, raised eight children,
and now, in retirement she has lot of hobbies: she deals with
ceramics, sculpture and painting, sewing, crafted jewelry, etc.
“Now I want to learn the techniques of watercolor,” said Saima.
“Just because I know: it is a very difficult technique. A year
ago, I went to one Finnish instructed watercolors workshop, but
the language barrier proved to be too great. But yesterday it
was all made so clear for us during these seven hours. When I
work at home on and on, the hundredth picture might be some
success.”
Piret Männiste, the tutor at Jõgeva hospital day care center,
came to the camp of watercolors with no experience before. “I am
completing the first watercolor picture, but I enjoy this
process. I would definitely continue to deal with watercolors at
home, if I find some time between the two jobs, children and the
farm, “said Piret Männiste.
An engineer from Narva – Roman Hruljov – has been engaged
seriously with art, but he also was a novice in the field of
watercolors. “Here the camp is a very good opportunity to
develop the area of watercolors. It works as a sort of art
school, “said Hruljov. Gennadi Lapin, however, praised Romans
pictures, and says that his development with aquacolors has been
downright visible. Nordic light, low clouds “There are many
motives to paint: a spacious landscape panorama, interesting old
buildings, and others,” said Roman Hruljov.
The same mind had the artists who arrived from Berlin – Marianne
Gielen, Renate Pfommer Lilo Gericke-Zaki. “Very good place to
paint is the arboretum,” said Marianne Gielen. “Although my
abstract acrylics do not constitute specific recognizable motifs,
it can be said that they are affected by this context, because
my works painted at home and here are different. The light and
the mood here is quite different. Renate and Lilo also confirmed
that
Estonia has differences from home – northern light and low
clouds. And, therefore works become very different than at home.
Both artists felt that it was a pity they had to accommodate
their ideas in fairly small size of paper: a larger paperfolios
are not allowed to board the plane. “I have been a pretty long
way from watercolors, but now I got “the taste “ again and
surely will continue at home,” said Lilo. Renate added, that the
camp of art is also good for interacting with artists from other
countries – even with the hands and feet, if there are not
enough words. “We laugh a lot during these days” said Renate
Pfommer.
Jurga Sidabriene, who came from Vilnius, said that for her the
summer is the most productive time of creation, as at other
times, most of the time is spent on teaching: it is both the
Vilnius Pedagogical University as well as a high school art
teacher. “In the summer I try to unleash and paint all that
accumulated during the year,” said Jurga. “It’s great to
interact with peers in the camp: after all, many of them I know
from the earlier camps. Here the camp is very well organized: we
feel very comfortable here.”
The Luua art camp was supported by the Cultural Endowment of
Estonia, the municipality of Jõgeva and the Jõgeva County Expert
Group.
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