ART+ poscast: Sacramento Valley Landscape Conference featuring painter Greg Kondos

ART+ interviewed John Natsoulas whose gallery organized the upcoming Sacramento Valley Landscape Conference which will be held on July 21, 2007. The Conference is an all day event at Bear Flag Farm in Winters, California. The morning program will feature plein air painting demonstrations by several eminent Sacramento Valley landscape painters: Gregory Kondos, Chella, Deladier Almeida, Philippe Gandiol, and Marie-Térèse Brown. Following the demonstrations will be a lunch with the artists. The day event will be followed by an evening party at the Natsoulas Gallery.

This interview included conversations with painers Philippe Gandiol and Melissa Chandon. Melissa talked about her new book Landmarks: A Visual Essay. Melissa and Philippe talked about the Painting Workshop they are conducting in France this year from August 23 to September 1. This workshop will begin in Paris and include Giverny and Montdoubleau where the attendees will spend the days painting the French countryside. Philippe Gandiol talked about his upcoming Still Life Workshop at the Natsoulas Gallery, on July 7th.

In this interview Melissa Chandon talked about her new book Landmarks: A Visual Essay. The book was published in conjunction with her current exhibition at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in California.

The interview is available on iTunes and on the artplus website http://www.artplusradio.org


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