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31st August 2010
Paint St. Lucia

“Art adds to a community, attracts a core of people who are intelligent, creative and bring new ideas. They have a lot of energy and insight, which is a really wonderful thing for a community to have.”
Landscape painters will invade Anse La Raye in September. Some of the area’s most adventurous
outdoor painters will bring their paint boxes and easels to Anse La Raye, a well known fishing community, with a historically significant church, a fishing dock and the river, which is frequently used by house wives to do their laundry.
This remarkable 7th Annual event - Paint St. Lucia- is happening with the support of International Plein Air Painters , The Lucian Plein Air Group and the Inner Gallery. Artists are expected from all over St. Lucia, to converge on Anse La Raye all day on Sunday the 12th, September, 2010, to paint outdoors throughout the town.
Last year’s event drew artists from all over the Globe. Many new plein air painting groups were formed directly from this event.
Plein air artists seek the quality of natural light and atmosphere outdoors. Their art work is in direct response to the beauty they find in nature. They use a variety of media, from oils, through watercolors and pastels.
The public will be able to join in the fun by watching individual artists work and moving from painter to painter from 9 until 3 throughout the day.
There will be an exhibit of the day’s work at Inner Gallery, Rodney Bay Mall, during the following week.
The public is invited, during normal operating hours, to view the artist’s renditions of beautiful Anse la Raye.
 
 

Event organizer Alcina Nolley says there is a joy about paintings outdoors and this is a chance for people to see professional artists at work, developing their paintings in response to the beauty in nature.
Plein air painting developed in France in the mid 19th century and is becoming increasingly popular.
Last year’s event drew artists from all over the Globe. Many new plein air painting groups were formed directly from this event
IPAP, who has members who reside throughout the World, is the blanket organization for individual plein air groups and was created for the sole purpose of advancing the execution and enjoyment of plein air painting without limitations of borders or regions.
IPAP’s members are the silent activists in the ongoing environmental struggle.
They call attention to the threatened urban scene and the vanishing farmland and beaches for history.
Its members share inspiration and encouragement both on the Internet and at “paint outs”.
They encourage other artists to get out and do it, to paint with other artists and share ideas.
This event is happening simultaneously in international locations and St. Lucia is part of this 8th WORLDWIDE group event hosted by International Plein Air Painters. You can join IPAP or learn more about the group and see some of the many events happening posted on the website www.i-p-a-p.com
IPAP plans to make the Paint Out a yearly event. Dates for 2011 TBA

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