Hameau Farm Instructors
Susan Nicholas Gephart
Susan Nicholas Gephart, facilitator, is an award winning pastel and oil painter who has been creating colorful, impressionistic landscapes "plein air" for over thirty years.
Susan is a 1979 BFA graduate from Penn State University. In 2007 she was inducted into the Montgomery County Community College Alumni Hall of Fame, where she and her father exhibited together in June 2008.
She has shown her work in The Pastel Society of America, Art of The State of Pennsylvania, and is in the collections of The Penn Stater Conference Center and The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. She is a Certified Instructor of Jack Richeson Products and teaches at C Barton McCann School of Art and for the Rochester NY Art Center.
Susan will demonstrate with Jack Richeson Supplies Unison pastels, papers, and oils, as well as Gamblin Oil Mediums and will have product samples available at Hameau Farm Studio. Find out what else Susan will be demonstrating.
James Farrah AWS/NWS/NAPA
Credit Beverly Klucher
James is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, and the National Acrylic Painters Association. He will share his technical background and unique experiences as product demonstrator for companies like Daler-Rowney, Strathmore, Robert Simmons, and Graham Paints.
He teaches at the Chandler-Gilbert Community College and The Mesa Arts Center as well as workshops and private classes.
Although his specialty is watercolor, James also works in oils and acrylics, and students are invited to work in any medium of their choice.
He will lead sessions in "Fast Painting," a favorite from our last May Workshop. Find out what else James will be demonstrating. Contact James and visit his website.
Visit the Mesa Arts Center Museum, "Best of Arizona Watercolor Association" where Jim's work will be on display.
