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Ronnie Landfield, A Great Abstract Art Teacher.

Ronnie was the first abstract, actually the only abstract teacher I had. I took his class at the Art Students League, NYC, around 1995. A word of advice if you ever go inside the Art Students League, prepare to get paint on your clothes. This institute as been around since, 1875, (145 years of painted walls) which as you can imagine has lead to paint at least three inches thick on each wall. I call it the CBGB’s of the art world, due to the messy walls.

Back to Ronnie, he had a great hands off approach at teaching. He would let all of his students develop their own concepts about abstract art. The best advice he gave me and the only advice he gave me, in class was- just paint out what you don’t like in the painting. I still use that advice today.

His teaching still influence me. What I have retained as lyrical in my work was definitely influenced by Ronnie’s direction. Now that I am a full time painter, I want to say Thanks, Ronnie!!

You can find out more about Ronnie’s work in the article below.

https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/202001/ronnie-landfield-81702

When I was eight, our school went to a field trip to Strawbery Banke. I fell in love with it then, the gardens, the crowded turn of the century houses. It was such a beautiful escape. Now I live close by and I paint such an amazing part of Portsmouth.Strawbery Banke is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day city of Portsmouth. It features more than 37 restored buildings built between the 17th and 19th centuries in the Colonial, Georgian and Federal style architectures. The darkest colored house is the oldest house in the group. I have a group of historical areas that I am painting, or known as historical paintings. Look out for more!

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