Unique Techniques For Abstract Oil Painting

Unique Techniques For Abstract Oil Painting:

A Workshop With Pablo McClure, Master Chilean Painter

Learn to paint like a master while learning novel techniques, and understanding the importance of ‘value’ and ‘tone’ in improving your painting skills. No painting experience needed. Students must bring their own painting supplies,

• Oil paint and solvents
• brushes and/or pallet knives
• pallet
• canvases

Sign up no later than July 10, 2023 at EventBrite.com.

“Since the age of 15, I have dedicated my life to painting, but when I came to Spain after graduating with a degree in Architecture, I began the search for my own pictorial world. This is reflected in the beginning with some obstacles or barriers painted inside the canvas that prevented the approaching of multiple small marks distributed in a more distant plane with complete autonomy, now I define them as ‘windows to freedom.’ These barriers are gradually turning thinner and more flexible, becoming docile ties fragmented within the canvas until disappearing, opening free access to these spots, while they approach and gradually disappear.

When I returned to Chile in 1990 I started to glimpse the immensity from the windows of my studio in the Atacama Desert. I decided to rescue one of these spots scattered around in canvas. I devoted myself to that spot as I surrender to my view of the vast desert. The sky and ocean together were defining and organizing the items that I discovered and have not ceased to appear before my eyes.”

Pablo McClure was born in Santiago, Chile. He graduated from the Catholic University of Valparaiso in 1981 where he studied architecture. Since then he’s devoted himself exclusively to painting. In the later 1980’s, McClure further developed his work in Spain while working in the studio of the Spanish painter Manuel Viola where he met the painter Roberto Matta.

In Spain, McClure had many individual exhibitions. He illustrated the book “He Was Born Transparent,” written by Soledad Leonicio and published in Madrid (1982). He conducted a series of drawings from the “Royal Monasteries of San Lorenzo de El Escorial” (1984), commissioned by the National Heritage Spain. He was a professor of art at the Royal College Alfonso XII and the House of Culture in El Escoria.

After returning to Chile in the 1990s, McClure painted the mural “Constellation II” and “Heroes of Santiago” in the subway station. He worked as a professor of art at the Catholic University of Valparaiso and Andres Bello University in Santiago.

McClure is a board member of the White Mountain Institute Foundation in California. Poet Raul Zunita considers McClure as “one of the strongest Chilean painters.” His work is in the Rally Museum and private collections in Europe, South America and the USA.