ARTIST TED MATZ AT WELLINGTON ART SOCIETY MEETING
Contemporary realist and plein air artist Ted Matz will be the featured demonstrator at the Wellington Art Society meeting on December 9th, 2015 at Bootz Culture Camp, 420 State Road 7, Suite 120, Royal Palm Beach, FL 33414. Meet and greet will begin at 6:30 PM followed by a brief meeting and member spotlight. The demonstration and a raffle benefiting the Scholarship Fund will conclude the evening.
Ted Matz studied at Kendall College of Art and received a Fine Arts Degree in watercolor from Eastern Michigan University. He resides in Lake Worth and is the Chair of Painting and Drawing at the Lighthouse Art Center Museum and School of Art in Tequesta. He has conducted classes and workshops throughout the United States, Italy and France. He is a Signature Member of the Artist Guild of the Boca Museum of Art and member of the International Plein Air Painters.
He is in awe of the wonderful natural forma, structures, colors and patterns that he sees in South Florida. His hope is that viewers of his art work will be drawn to the beauty of the amazing natural elements he creates in his paintings that many people overlook in their busy lives.
“As our lives become more frantic in this world of high tech living, I strive to take the viewer to a place of solitude and serenity”.
Ted teaches watercolor, acrylic, pastels and plein air painting. His teaching stresses finding your own individual voice that emerges from developing a visual language: value, composition, drawing, color, patterns and a strong sense of seeing. Art is about finding your own authentic style and developing your self confidence and awareness as an artist.
“As our lives become more frantic in this world of high tech living, I strive to take the viewer to a place of solitude and serenity.”
In the past, Ted worked in design related postitions for Jacobson’s Store, Inc., Saks Fifth Avenue in Palm Beach and Lord and Taylor in Detroit.
Exhibitions include the Lighthouse Art Center in Tequesta, Elliot Museum in Stuart, Ann Norton Sculpture Garden in West Palm Beach and the Ward-Nasse Gallery in New York City.
The Wellington Art Society is a non-profit charitable organization in its 34th year. It is open to artists of all mediums and patrons of the arts, allowing both local and regional artists to display their art work in local galleries, interact with other artists and serve the community through their art.
For more information visit WellingtonArtSociety.org