Jacqueline Altman: En Plein Air Reception

Jacqueline Altman: En Plein Air
Jacqueline Altman will be the featured artist at the Adirondack Artists Guild July 3rd-Aug.3rd.
Jacqueline has continued the tradition of painting en plein air ever since she was a student at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia and her professors took their classes outside to paint and draw in the surrounding areas. When she arrived in Saranac Lake as an art teacher, she signed up for watercolor painting workshops with Robert Plumb, a teacher from the Norwood-Massena area who had done reconnaissance looking for great hidden gems to paint with his classes. Bob never held back sharing his techniques for watercolor painting and that has served Jacqueline well to this day. She has often shared them with her own students and friends as well! Several of those original sites became iconic views we all know and love to paint to this day.
The classes fostered a sense of camaraderie among the painters and many became lifelong friends who could always be counted on to make a trek with their equipment, share their discovery of a new place to paint or return to a favorite one...the light and colors always changing...some new aspect to discover and share...in all kinds of weather and seasons.
Today, Jacqueline fosters her love of plein air painting among fellow artists who meet from spring through fall in an informal group called the Adirondack Artists’ Guild Plein Air Painting Group. Many of the works in this exhibit have been created during those outings.
With age and mobility becoming a factor, several of the sites Jacqueline chose for the work in this show have been more easily accessible—parking the car nearby, as done for the View Through the Cascades, or using a rollatator with wide wheels for use on a dirt trail into the Bloomingdale Bog to see the Canada Jay or to set up on a bench at the beginning of the Rail Trail in Ray Brook. The view of Early Snow on Algonquin is from a now saved open view on Adirondack Loj Rd.
Perhaps some of the sites included will be familiar to the viewer, maybe some will pique an interest and precipitate a visit to them. May these and many other views continue to be enjoyed and be inspiring to en plein air painters.
All are invited to attend an opening reception on Friday, July 3rd from 5 -7 p.m. The show will be up through August 3rd.
The Adirondack Artists Guild is a cooperative retail art gallery representing a diverse group of artists residing and working in the Tri-Lakes region of the Adirondack Park. The gallery is located at 52 Main St., Saranac Lake. Phone: (518) 891-2615. Summer Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday 11 - 5 and Sunday 11 - 3. The Guild is on Facebook, Instagram, and on the web at