Have you always wanted to learn how to paint? Then this class is for you.
Pilar Figueira will guide you through the creative process of painting with acrylics or oil paint while exploring color, light, texture, and composition. Through a variety of subjects including still life, portraiture, and abstraction, students will develop new skills and discover their visual language.

The class runs for 6 weeks on Fridays from 10am-1pm.

January 16, 23,30, February 6, 13, and 27 (skip 2/20 vacation week)

A supply list will be provided.

Fee: $300

You will have to bring your own art supplies. Click the button below to download the 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 brush strokes 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 The Blaffer Art Museum in Houston TX, at the Lawndale Art Center's in Houston TX, at the Vignette Art Fair at The Women’s Museum in Fair Park in Dallas, TX, and at the Reisman Hall Art Gallery in Cazenovia, NY.