Our Partners
CHEF
Suzanne Trice
After 23 years in education as a teacher, principal and Director of Operations, Chef Suzanne took a leap of faith and followed a long time dream. At the age of 48, she left the field of education and went to Culinary School! She attended the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City and graduated top of her class with the Most Likely to Succeed Award. She externed and later was employed full time at The Modern, a two star Michelin restaurant, then rounded out her experience by working for the White Apron, a high end catering company, serving as a catering chef doing production and events in the New England area. Her next culinary adventure involved a yachting journey as the sole chef on S/Y Radiance out of Palma, Spain and later Antigua. She received many accolades during the charter season and won first place in the Chef de Concours competition at the Annual Antigua Boat show in December 2022. Chef Suzanne is currently splitting her time continuing to serve as a freelance yacht chef and is the chef owner of Sweetwater Kitchen, LLC., a private chef and catering company serving New Hampshire’s lakes region and the seacoast. She has partnered with the Pickering House Inn in Wolfeboro for their Barn Dinner series as well as acting as one of their preferred caterers for private events. Suzanne’s creative and healthy menus as well as her engaging personality make her a natural to partner with our retreat in 2024!
Leah Mason, M.Ed.
MEDITATION GUIDE
Leah Mason, M.Ed. is the owner of The Center for Balance where she facilitates and shares ways to realign yourself and find balance in your life . She is a college professor, and an intuitive energy worker trained in Reiki (master level) and Shamanism. A daily meditator for over 35 years, as well as seeing auras since kindergarten, she has been invested in exploring spiritual practices her entire life. In addition to spiritual growth, her passions include being in nature, her dog, reading, flowers, creating art and her community of loved ones. Leah opens our retreats with intention setting and meditation, grounding us as we get started on the week.
Our 2024 Featured Artist
ARTIST & 2024 RETREAT INSTRUCTOR
Amy Wynne
Amy Wynne is an artist currently living and working in an historic mill studio in Pawtucket, RI. She holds an MFA in Classical Painting from The New York Academy of Art in New York City and a dual BA in Art History & Cultural Anthropology from Smith College. She received the 2015 CE Teacher of Excellence Award from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has been teaching painting and drawing for 25 years. Formerly full time at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, she currently teaches workshops on-line, across New England and Tuscany.
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She exhibits in galleries nationally and has work in private and corporate collections including Brown University, Fidelity Investments and Meditech Corporation. She has been awarded grants from The Rhode Island Cultural Council and a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. She is also an author of many on-line classes with LinkedInLearning.com and CreativeLive.com.
“I am curious about the liminal space in between clearly perceived moments. The speed of our existence leaves us with fleeting glimpses of nature. Painting outdoors deepens my sensory connection to the physical world. Witnessing what the landscape communicates through changing light, temperature and atmosphere allows me to present a vision of the environment that transcends its physical appearance, communicating the unity of nature and human spirit. Back in the studio, working from memory allows details to fall away while the most essential elements arise, revealing the truth of a place.” - Amy Wynne 2022Author: LinkedIn Learning & CreativeLive
Check out my online courses here:
LinkedIn Learning:
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/search?keywords=amy+wynne&upsellOrderOrigin=default_guest_learning&trk=learning-course_learning-search-bar_search-submit
CreativeLive:
https://www.creativelive.com/catalog?q=amy%20wynne&via=site-header_0
Our Past Featured Artists
ARTIST & OCTOBER 2023 RETREAT INSTRUCTOR
Amy Brnger
Back by popular demand after teaching at our September, 2022 retreat! Amy Brnger has an extensive history of working with both novice and experienced painters, and teaching a variety of classes and workshops in New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and Italy. She has a large online following and her classes quickly sell out. She has exhibited in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia and Vermont and has had a number of reviews and interviews in professional publications.
Amy has painted still life, flowers, and landscape for as long as she has been an artist. Interiors, still life and landscape are often paired together in her work, as all influence one another equally. All images are painted rapidly, in an effort to capture the changing nature of organic forms.
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“Amy was recommended to me by a friend, and after her first class I was hooked! I have taken at least 6 on line classes with her, and I am impressed with how she works with painters of all levels, providing support, inspiration and guidance. Her classes are so organized, and although I barely knew a paintbrush from a palette, she made me feel comfortable from the very beginning. Amy’s painting style is also very accessible for someone who is intimidated by a more realistic style of painting. Painting with Amy is always a joy, and I can’t wait to work with her in person in September!” - Sabet, in 2022 as a very novice painter
“I use nature as a vehicle, or an excuse, to paint, and I enjoy painting places and things in which I am familiar or curious.” - Amy Brnger
LEARN MORE ABOUT AMY
http://www.amybrnger.podia.comhttps://www.amybrnger.com
ARTIST & SEPTEMBER 2021 RETREAT INSTUCTOR
Cynthia Rosen
Cynthia Rosen paints with a contemporary vision that bridges the representational world with the intangibility of time as explored by the Impressionists, Expressionists, Futurists and Color Field painters. Her work has been recognized for spurring a change in the Plein Air community as she melds her love of nature with painting, often painting outdoors, creating images that stretch beyond the traditional, with a palette knife as an integral tool. Rosen has been featured in Plein Air Magazine, Southwest Art Magazine, the Outdoor Painter and American Art Collector. She was also invited to make an instructional video which was released through Streamline Art Videos in 2018, and was on the faculty of the Plein Air Art Convention in 2019. To learn more about Cynthia and see her beautiful work, visit her website.
2019 ARTIST & RETREAT INSTRUCTOR
Jill Steenhuis
Jill Steenhuis is an American-born French Impressionistic painter based in the South of France. Specializing in oil painting, lithography and watercolor, Jill captures the essence of Provence with her own personal poetry and vibrant energy. Learn more about Jill’s fascinating journey as an artist at her website.