Have you always wanted to learn how to paint? Now’s your chance.

Artist Pilar Figueira will guide you through the creative process of painting with acrylics or oils while exploring color, light, texture, and composition. Through hands-on practice with still life, portraiture, and abstract subjects, you’ll develop new skills and discover your unique visual language.

The class meets for 6 weeks on Fridays from 10 am to 1 pm.

January 16, 23, 30 and February 6, 13, 27 (no class February 20)

A small group experience—space is limited to 10.

A supply list is provided below.

Fee: $300

Click the button below to register via the Wellesley Recreation Center. Use activity number #141402.

You’ll need to bring your own supplies to class. Click the button below to download the supply list.

Meet your teacher:

Pilar Figueira is a Portuguese artist currently based in Wellesley, MA.

She creates period paintings of scenes that feel strikingly familiar with brushstrokes of oil and nostalgia. Her work explores the process of the reconstruction of memory and identity that takes place as generations emerge and disappear. 

By representing common experiences shared in old photographs, her paintings transform old memories into new narratives, creating figurative portraits that are both anonymous in nature but also very personal. 

Figueira intentionally leaves part of the ground layer visible, like incomplete patches, showing the painting as a story yet to be finished. Women play a crucial pictorial role in her work. 

Her art has been exhibited at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, TX; the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, TX; the Vignette Art Fair at the Women’s Museum Building in Fair Park in Dallas, TX; and at the Reisman Hall Art Gallery in Cazenovia, NY.