Roz Sommer’s Still Life Workshop | Online Exhibition
This Fall Roz Sommer led a 4-week Still Life Painting workshop. Focused on building layers of heavy body acrylic paint. Sommer, a still life architect, painter and collector of beautiful treasures; curated a warm display with mixed patterns, shapes and natural pieces. Inviting the participating artists to dip into their own personal interpretation of the curated set up.
Images below display the buttery consistency and painterly techniques guided by Sommer. Infusing her philosophy of painting; Sommer believes, “Thick, juicy, textural color, as well as dramatic light and shadow emphasize the intensity of my subjects… The paint application, energetic brushwork and emanating light bring underlying danger and mystery…”
Participating this fall session: Barbara Appignani, Claire Chafee, Wendy Drexler, Hannah Goldberger, Annie Hsu, Frances Rockwell and Linda Tracy.
Click the images below to see how these students mastered the art of heavy body acrylic paint.
- Piece created by Wendy D.
- Piece Created by Hannah G.
- Piece created by Linda
To read and see more of Roz Sommer’s artwork, please visit her website here.


Chandler Gallery Current Exhibition
Watercolors & Monotypes: County Mayo, Ireland
Show Dates
March 4th-April 29th, 2026
Gallery Hours
Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 6 PMSaturdays March 14 & 21, 12 to 5 PM
The dramatic beauty of Ireland’s west coast has inspired many an artist! The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, located in the town of Ballycastle, Co Mayo, offers workshops and residencies. Local artists Catherine Kernan, Jane Goldman, and Wendy Prellwitz have deep connections there, traveling multiple times over many years to do their work.
Watercolors & Monotypes features a small selection of works created independently and at workshops there. At a recent workshop in 2025, led by Wendy, Cynthia Smith & Mara Callahan painted watercolors in the landscape, which inspired watercolor monotypes, printed in the Foundation’s print shop. In 2019, Jane Goldman led a watercolor workshop with Diane Norris and Chris Pullman.
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