OIL CLOUD PAINTING
with Kelly Best Bourgeois
April 25th & 26th, 2025 | 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM
(with 1 hour lunch break)
$245 For Members, $295 For Nonmembers
All Supplies Included
Class Information:
In this 2-day workshop we’ll discuss the art and the science of creating beautiful clouds in your oil paintings. There will be a short lecture each morning followed by a demonstration, then plenty of time to create your own painting(s) with one-on-one guidance and instruction. Growing up in Corpus Christi, TX, Kelly Best Bourgeois has enjoyed the beauty of nature for as long as she can remember. Throughout her pain8ng career, nature has influenced her works. After a long professional career outside of art, she returned to her passion for painting and has been featured in many exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at the Art Center of Corpus Christi and the Beeville Art Museum. Her painting “Radiant Cadence” is currently part of the Houston Intercontinental Airport Art Exhibition, with IAH being rated by Skytrax as #1 in the world for Airport Art. From her studio in the Sawyer Yards Arts District of Houston, she creates most of her works based on plein air paintings (pain8ngs created outdoors) and loves sharing her techniques and passion for painting in the workshops she teaches.
About The instructor:
Growing up along the Texas Gulf Coast, Kelly Best Bourgeois developed a profound and
lifelong love of nature. As a teen, she painted seriously and sold many of her works, but pursued a more academic path in college, then a professional career as a physician, specializing in Anesthesiology. Kelly kept her hand in art while practicing medicine and raising her family by taking classes at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts Glasell School of Art and the Art League of Houston. In more recent years, she has also studied in workshops in Roundtop, TX, New Orleans, LA, Scottsdale, AZ, Monhegan Is., ME, and the Provence region of France. She particularly enjoys painting en plein air with oil paint or gouache and using those works as inspiration for her studio paintings. Kelly retired from medicine in 2020 to focus more on her passion for art. In 2021 she had her first solo exhibition, Deep in the Heart, featuring Texas landscapes based on paintings from her travels across Texas during the pandemic and shown in the Kucera Gallery at the Art Center of Corpus Christi. In 2022, through the generous support of the Joe Barnhart Foundation, the Beeville Art Museum hosted her exhibition Lone Star Gifts, and in 2023 Kelly’s works were featured as part of the Houston Arts District Sawyer Yards’ landscape exhibition The Loud Quiet. In 2024 she was featured in the two artists Houston Exhibition titled Oceans: Echoes of Existence, also in Sawyer Yards. Her painting Radiant Cadence was selected for the Houston Airport Artist Loan Program, with the Houston Airports ranked by Skytrax as #1 in the world for Airport Art. Best Bourgeois’ artwork is in private collections across the U.S. and as far away as the UK and Warsaw, Poland. She enjoys teaching workshops and welcomes commissions and visitors to her Sabine Street Studio #116 in the Houston Arts District.
Artist Statement:
I love painting things from and of the Earth. From the topography of the land, to the changing weather, and flora and fauna across our country and the world, I have been captivated and entranced by our planet's diverse beauty for as long as I can remember. Through my paintings, I want viewers to feel that powerful intimate, connection to our mighty yet fragile Earth, and to protect it so future generations may do the same.
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OIL PAINTING
APRIL 25TH & 26TH, 2025
10:30AM-4:30PM
(with 1 hour lunch break)
$245 for Members | $295 for Non-Members
ALL Supplies Included