On May 18th, from 7-10 pm, enjoy the annual a la carte and Art exhibit reception, which puts work on display from participating artists of the May Hameau Farm Studio Artist Retreat & Workshop (organized by Susan Nicholas Gephart). In addition, the event will feature fine food and live music. It is free and open to the public. Families, come early to stroll the farm and see the animals. Art appreciators will see fine art and meet the artists participating in this plein air event. You will want to take home a special painting created by your favorite artists!

It is fast becoming a popular gathering for artists to share their fine art with collectors of landscape paintings! Join the artists at Hameau Farm Studio for an evening of celebration.

Contact, or learn more about, Susan Nicholas Gephart by phone (814-360-2116) or at her website, www.snicholasart.com

Save your spot now for the annual May Artist Retreat in the “Big Valley” of Central PA.

Hameau Farm Studio is a gathering place for artists to share, create, learn, and have fun. The unique studio, a variety of landscape views, fine foods, and camaraderie compel artists to return.  You can spend the entire week end with other artists in a creative, positive, and supportive atmosphere or design a personal plan to fit your schedule. Day options are welcome, with a meal plan available to all who attend.  Additional lodging available.

We are filling fast and early enrollmemnt is encoraged with class size limited. Please contact Instructor and Facilitator, Susan Nicholas Gephart at SNicholasArt@aol.com or call with all questions at  814-360-2116.  Register now for the 5 Day Package Discount and get free samples of art materials and more!

Contact Susan:

Please RSVP to Susan Nicholas Gephart.

For More Information: http://snicholasart.com/workshops/index.html

Visit Susan’s home studio in Victorian Bellefonte and see hundreds of affordable landscape paintings as well as hand made holiday cards and more.

Call today for a free Studio Tour With Susan at 814-360-2116 or email at snicholasart@gmail.com. Susan offers a lay-away, time payments, and commissions of your choice in a relaxed home atmosphere. Preview the art on display at this link. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151141403188314.440239.158427673313&type=1

During your visit, you’ll experience a visual delight in the 1902 home and studio of artist Susan Nicholas Gephart. Built by a school teacher and located directly across from the first Bellefonte High School, it was the perfect place to raise her three children over the last twenty five years. Now, the walls are adorned with beautifully framed art throughout three floors. The entry features rich woodwork and French doors opening into the first gallery. The living room displays antiques from the H.G. Wells side of her family, along with colorful Impressionistic landscape painting in all sizes and mediums.

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Seeing the first floor can fulfill your love of art with this prolific artist’s work, but you will want to climb the lovely oak steps and discover the paintings above.

The third floor attic pastel studio has a beautiful view looking through a giant pecan tree. Looking out, you can see the inspiration for many of Susan’s paintings; below, the double-lot terraced summer gardens sleep. Within this space you will discover the markings of art made from pure colors of pastel and more. You may even find a holiday gift to take home.

Painting the landscape and sharing her love of art through teaching are two of Susan’s passions. She has painted award winning landscapes for 40 years, and her deep appreciation of the earth can be seen in her colorful impressionistic pastel and oils. Susan is committed to bringing art to the public and creating environmental awareness through her landscape painting.

Susan offers a lay-away, time payments, and commissions of your choice. Do you have a special view or place you always wanted painted? Susan believes orginal art should be affordable and something for everyone to enjoy!

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a “Pastel Passions” workshop presented by artist Susan Nicholas Gephart    www.snicholasart.com
Friday, February 15, 11 to 2pm
Saturday, February 16, 12 to 3pm
Day options: Or take both classes. $30/class or 2 days/$55

Discover the joys of the pastels medium while exploring new processes. Learn how to connect your sketches, plein air studies and photos, to create a new studio pastel painting.
This class is for all levels and includes some samples.

Susan Nicholas Gephart believes in nurturing the “Artist Spirit” of the individual artist. Her love of the environment is laced through her landscape paintings and shared in her teaching.

Join Susan Nicholas Gephart, president of the Central Pa Pastel Society, and get inspired while having fun in an action packed discovery, using watercolor and pastel. The class is held at “Brushstokes Gallery, Art Supplies, & Framing” and offers what you need in art supplies and more. Contact Susan soon. Class size is limited.

Contact Susan to register at SNicholasArt@aol.com
Call Susan at 814-360-2116 with questions

Give a Valentine’s gift to a special artist in your life!
“Brushstrokes” Gallery, Art Supplies, and Framing
340 Market St., Lewisburg
www.brushstrokespa.com

Supply list for “Pastel Passions” workshop

1. Photos, sketches or paintings that will help you make a plan for a new painting idea. 2. Masking tape, sketchbook, pencil, eraser, ruler, knife, scissors, container, paper towels, Gloves in a Bottle, handi-wipes, water bottle,  3. Personal Easel and Pastels in a range of hard to soft 4. Multimedia art board no smaller than 16×20, any brand paper in a range of colors you prefer. 5. Old and new brushes. 6. Watercolor tubes in 4 or 5 colors  7. Fome Core board for a paper mount 

 Forget anything? No worries! “Brushstrokes” has it all in art supplies! Arrive 1/2 hour early to purchase. http://www.brushstrokespa.com/supplies/

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Susan is honored to be included in this fantastic Landscape Feature article in the February Southwest Art Magazine.  This pastel image was created during the May Hameau Farm Studio Artist Retreat.   Susan often paints and demonstrates plein air at this lovely mountain creek in Central PA.  Consider joining her this May 14-19 for the 14th Annual Hameau Farm Studio Retreat!  all levels and mediums welcome. Check out this link to find out more, see a slide show, and sign up now.  http://www.snicholasart.com/workshops/index.html

 ”Stroll Through the Arts” in downtown Historic Lewisburg on Nov 4, 6 to 9 pm. This 15th Annual Event will feature over 20 artists in the downtown shops. Susan will be at Faustina’s Gallery and Frame demonstrating in pastel and oils. She will be sharing her recent plein air works. Many will be unframed and available at reasonalble prices. Stop by and say hi!

Susan Nicholas Gephart Studio, locatied at 351 East Bishop St. Bellefonte, Pa. is participating in The Fall Colors Studio Tour 2011, sponsored by the Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania (a Rt45 Artisan Trail partner), is taking place on October 22-23 from 11:00 am – 4 pm each day. Twenty locations, some with artists demonstrating as well as showing their finished work.  http://www.artalliancepa.org/FallColorsStudioTour2011.pdf

Susan Nicholas Gephart Artist Bio:

Susan Nicholas Gephart, has been painting award-winning landscapes “Plein Air” and teaching for over thirty years. She is a 1979 BFA graduate of PSU and a Distinguished Alumni of Montgomery County Community College. Susan is president for the Central Pa Pastel Society and an active member of the Farmland Preservation Artists. 

Susan’s joy for the enriching the artistic spirit is demonstrated in her art teachings with all ages. Her deep appreciation of the earth is seen in her colorful, impressionistic pastels and oils, mostly painted “Plein Air”. 

Susan has shown with The Pastel Society of America, The Art of the State of Pennsylvania, won Best of Show in The Central Festival of the Arts Images, and is in the permanent collections of The Penn Stater Conference Center, Penn College, Lock Haven University, and The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art. Susan instructs privately at Nicholas Studios in Bellefonte, is a demonstrator for many national art supply companies, and organizes May and October annual artist retreats at Hameau Farm Studio in Belleville, PA.  www.snicholasart.com

“Focusing on the landscape, my goal is to capture the beauty of our fragile earth and convey a message of importance. Keeping my mind’s eye open for unique, electric reactions in pastels and oils continues to excite and rejuvenate my ongoing love of painting Sky, Water, and Earth.”

Save your spot for the 15th Annual May 13 -19 Artist Retreat in the “Big Valley” of Central PA. Hameau Farm Studio is a gathering place for artists to share, create, learn, and have fun. The unique studio, a variety of landscape views, gourmet foods, and camaraderie compel artists to return. You can spend the entire week with other artists in a creative, positive, and supportive atmosphere or design a personal plan to fit your schedule. All mediums and levels are welcome. The morning demonstrations are geared toward the artists needs. Day options are available.
Early enrollmemnt is encoraged and class size limited. Each Hameau Retreat is designed with the individual artist in mind. For more details view Susan’s Hameau Page at http://snicholasart.com/workshops/index.html Please contact Instructor and Facilitator, Susan Nicholas Gephart at snicholasart@gmail.com or call with questions at 814-360-2116.
View photos of past Hameau Retreats http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1287984206336.2035598.1432121069&type=3&l=6ce1cee2ad