Upcoming Classes
Sanborn Mills Farm “Painting Historic Rural Scenes”
Loudon, New Hampshire June 4 & 5, 2025
Join Lisa Curry Mair at this fantastic venue in New Hampshire. Students will each be creating a pastoral scene in a style similar to itinerant painter, Rufus Porter. Each will take home their own mini-mural to use to decorate their homes. I provide students with stencils for farmhouses, barns and farm animals and I will demonstrate simple “Rufus Porter” trees and shrubs. Prepared canvas, paints and some basic brushes are included in the materials fee.
Sanborn Mills Farm’s mission is to teach traditional arts and crafts and farming methods while sustainably using its field and forest resources for its workshops and events. The Farm is a beautiful retreat with student accommodations and meals created on site and served in the dining hall.
This will be my third year there. Last year was wonderful! The farm is so perfect. You can walk around in the late afternoon and see farm animals, gardens and beautifully restored old buildings in many corners of this vast property, and have a perfectly prepared dinner with classmates, discussing painting, farming and eating!
Registration is open and will be available to the first 8 to sign up. These spots will go fast!
Lisa Curry Mair travels a few times a year to teach classes away from her studio. Each class uses a specific theme (folk art, theorems, tavern signs, for example) and students create paintings based on this theme. Instruction in painting- materials, composition, shading and color theory are covered while individual expression is encouraged. Lisa loves working with students of all abilities! Classes are usually 2 days long, giving students time to complete or nearly complete their projects.
Tuition includes one 2’x3′ prepped canvas, brushes, stencils and templates, instruction for your design and demonstrations within your class’ theme, best-quality acrylic paints with enough for you to finish your project at home.
If you are interested in hosting a class, please contact the studio. Hosts are responsible for finding a class site (school, church basement, barn, etc.), set up of the space and housing for Lisa during the class. Classes usually fill to 8-10 students for plenty of individual attention.
Floorcloth Magic Book by Lisa Curry Mair is now available as a Digital Download! Click here to get your copy today. 135 full color pages.
