Studio Classes & Plein Air Workshops
Private * Semi-Private Lessons * Personalized Critiques
In-Person and Virtual

SUMMER 2025
Dates to be set for the Summer of 2025
DMITRI'S STUDIO
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Private and Semi-Private Lessons
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In-Person and Virtual Critiques
SILVERMINE ART CENTER
SUMMER WORKSHOPS
Painting Your Narrative: Illuminated Memories as Your Own Aesthetic
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August 9-10
Discover how to transform your most cherished memories into vibrant, soul-filled works of art.
In this inspiring hands-on workbook, master artist Dmitri Wright guides you through a joyful journey of reflection, sketching, color discovery, and expressive painting. Learn how to paint from your heart, trust your intuition, and celebrate the good, the beautiful, and the true through your own artistic language. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced painter, Painting Your Narrative invites you to illuminate your life story in brushstrokes of light and love.
Abstract Painting: Dynamics of Symbols and Color in Composition Workshop
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Aug 16-17
Reveal the unseen through lyrical abstraction—where color, form, and personal essence converge into pure expression.
Awaken the poet within your brush. In this course, abstraction becomes a means to reveal the unseen—transforming the figure, landscape, or floral subject into a lyrical expression of personal vision, temperament, and aesthetic beauty. Through presentations on color theory and compositional structure, alongside playful exercises that encourage working on a larger scale, students will deepen their understanding of the dynamic relationship between symbol, form, and color. Emphasis will be placed on cultivating expressive freedom and embracing the creative journey as an art form in itself. Students of all levels are invited to work in any medium of their choice. Please bring an Artist Journal and any materials you are currently exploring
New Canaan Library
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Presentations and Demonstrations
Impressionist Plein Air Painting Workshop
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Sponsored by Friends of Weir Farm
To register, email wefa_interpretation@nps.gov for June and September
SPRING 2025
SILVERMINE ART CENTER
Abstract Painting: Dynamics of Symbols and Color in Composition
Wednesdays: 2 Different Sessions
ALL LEVELS
Develop your own unique personal vision as an abstract painter and explore new ideas via the art of the creative process. Focus will be on the abstracted from the representative - figure, landscape or floral in applying one’s personal perception, temperament and aesthetical beauty for more expressive freedom in chosen subject. There will be presentations of color and compositional theory, in addition to playful exercises in working large. Students at all levels are welcome to work in any medium of their choice. Bring an Artist Journal and any supplies you are already working in.
Contemporary Impressionism and Beyond: Experience to Expression
Fridays: 2 Different Sessions
ALL LEVELS
Develop our own unique style while discovering the philosophy and techniques used by the impressionist masters. Such methods used by the impressionists were taken from the classical and today used by the modernists are the tools you will learn from illustrative to the abstract. Students from all levels and interests, as well as those working in all materials and methods are welcomed from classical to abstract.