2026 August 15 & 16 10 am-4 pm EST @Townsend Atelier Instructor: Mia Bergeron Join Mia for this brand new workshop that has been decades in the making! We will be exploring broken color and its visual effects. Broken color is best known through Impressionism, mixing multiple colors within the same value to achieve effects that resemble how we see light in nature. We will be painting from still lives set up in class. Participants will be doing black and white acrylic underpainting to calmly grasp values, then we will layer oils on top to work with harmonious colors. Emphasis on controlling similar values and different colors is key to this workshop. We will be exploring color temperatures, simplifying values, and drawing, working one element at a time. There will be a one-hour lunch break each day. Lunch is on your own. If you are traveling from out of town, contact us if you need accommodation recommendations and we will be happy to help. Beginners welcome! CLICK HERE for materials list About the Instructor: B.1980 Mia Bergeron is a classically trained oil painter who uses modern techniques and concepts to create layered, imaginative works. Imagery in her work often oscillates between the fictitious and the observed in equal parts. Rooted in her upbringing in New York City with continuous exposure to modern art, her paintings also reveal her choice to study classical painting in Florence, Italy under Charles H. Cecil in her twenties. For Mia, painting is about an experiential cohabitation; we are driving in our car, seeing landscapes, people, stoplights, and trees- but we are also thinking about places far away, imagined outcomes, wild and mysterious fantasies. We are a species that lives in two places at all times- internally and externally. It is this dynamic contrast that is at the center of Mia’s paintings. Mia has been published numerous times in international magazines. In January 2024, her painting was published in The New Yorker Magazine alongside writer Joy Williams’ short story. Her painting “Tranquil Ghosts” was the cover image for the January 2022 issue of American Art Collector Magazine. Her work is part of the Bennett Collection of Women at the Muskegon Museum of Art, and also in the permanent collection of the New Salem Museum of Art. She continues to teach and exhibit her work throughout the United States and Europe. She and her husband, artist John McLeod, live in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
