Catamount Arts

Sunday, October 12, 2025 (*raindate 10/13*)

1-4pm 

Instructor: Margaret Wiseheart (wiseheartist.com)

 Combine your love of nature and creativity through the practice of open air painting at Dog Mountain in St Johnsbury. Featuring meadows, distant vistas, a variety of trees and grasses, wooded areas, and buildings with autumnal backdrops, this scenic location is the perfect, peaceful place to learn the essentials of landscape painting.  

Plein air artist Margaret Wiseheart will guide both newbie and seasoned artists through both the practical matters of open air painting. Topics include the basics of working outdoors as well as the how-to’s of color mixing, hints for sound drawing, and helpful painting practices. 

Instruction is geared toward oil/acrylic painting, but artists may bring their medium of choice. A suggested supply list will be provided.  Easels may be reserved at registration. 

Restrooms and parking available. Note:  Students are responsible for their own transportation to location. 

Class fee: $60 (10% discount for Catamount Arts members). Space is limited to 8 students. Registration deadline: October 10.

Primarily a self-taught artist, Margaret Wiseheart has developed skills as a landscape oil painter by painting from life and direct observation. Originally from Bucks County PA, Margaret’s journey into oil painting began in 2013. Once bitten by the bug, Margaret began to immerse herself into the daily practice of oil painting, both indoors and out. Her painting style was quickly influenced, and continues to be, by the Pennsylvania Impressionists and the Hudson River Valley School of painters.

With a degree in fashion design and background as a dancer, Margaret has spent the most of her professional career in the dance apparel industry, and designing costumes for regional professional theatre and ballet companies.

Margaret is excited to shape the next phase of her life as an artist and teacher and happy to be associated with Catamount Arts, teaching summer and fall workshops. She currently is spending time in Philadelphia and taking continued ed classes in figurative and portraiture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.