Transforming your Plein Air Studies into Encaustics
with Helene Farrar
May 6-7, 2025 | Tuesday- Wednesday
Tue: 10 am – 5 pm | Wednesday: 9 am – 4 pm
Medium: Encaustic Painting.
Experience Level: Some encaustics experience or have taken the previous Intro to Encaustics workshop.
Registration: Each student must register individually. Click the Cancellation Policy tab above for more info.
Materials List: Click the Materials List tab above for a list of materials/supplies students need to bring to the workshop.
Materials Fee: $50 paid directly to instructor for some supplies on the first day.
Location: Sedona Arts Center, Theatre Studio.
This two-day intensive workshop is designed for artists who have had some experience in encaustics, are fluent in the basics, or have taken a previous Introductory Workshop. Students will be encouraged to develop their voice with this medium through landscape painting with individual attention and studio time. Students will also learn how to transfer landscape sketches and techniques specific to encaustic for building up surface and interpreting form, color and light. We will work towards making work that demonstrates a style emerging or a particular interest. Students will leave feeling accomplished and inspired!
$50 additional fee paid to the instructor on the first day for materials she provides. See more information about materials students need to bring to the workshop by clicking the Materials List tab above.
Helene is also teaching a 1-day workshop Introduction to Encaustics on May 3, 2025.
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Helene Farrar
Hélène Farrar has taught and worked in the visual arts for twenty years while actively exhibiting in commercial, nonprofit and university galleries in New England, New York City, Pennsylvania, Italy, and England. Farrar has a BA in Studio Art from the University of Maine and a Masters of Fine Art Degree in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College in Vermont. Hélène currently owns and operates her own private art school in Maine out of her “Farmhouse” studio, where she holds varied workshops and classes. Her paintings have most recently been accepted into curated exhibits at the Cape Cod Community College, Fuller Craft Museum, the Saco Museum, the University of New England Art Gallery, and Twiggs Gallery in New Hampshire. Farrar is represented by Archipelago Fine Arts in Rockland, Betts Gallery of Belfast, Cynthia Winings Gallery of Blue Hill, and the Center for Maine Craft in West Gardiner. Her work as an educator has brought her across the state of Maine including the Haystack Mountain School or Crafts, and she will be teaching at the 2019 International Encaustics Conference.
A $50 additional fee paid to the instructor for materials she provides. I will provide all encaustic medium, starter panels (sizes under 8 X 8 inches), access to additional encaustic colors, oil paint sticks, tools and such.
Students may register online or by calling the Sedona Arts Center’s Administrative Offices in the Art Barn, toll-free at 888-954-4442 or locally at 928-282-3809
Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express are accepted or student may pay with cash or check by registering in person during office hours at the Art Barn
In-Person and Online Workshops
Payment in full is due upon registration, or a payment plan can be put in place by the student upon check-out through Sezzle.
There is a $125 Cancellation Fee for any cancellations made before April 6, 2025. Remaining balance will be refunded.
There are no refunds after April 6, 2025.
If Sedona Arts Center cancels the workshop for any reason, all payments made will be refunded in full.
Note: If traveling to Sedona, we strongly urge students to purchase refundable airline tickets or travel insurance in case of workshop cancellation due to insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen changes. Sedona Arts Center is not responsible for non-refundable ticket purchases or lodging fees.
Important Message
The Sedona Arts Center is not responsible for providing make-up sessions or issuing refunds, credits, or transfers for courses missed as a result of illness, emergencies, or other events beyond our control. There are absolutely no refunds after the cut-off date for any reason, unless the Sedona Arts Center has to cancel the workshop, then all fees paid will be refunded in full.
