Art Workshops with Marija Pavlovich McCarthy

Artist Marija Pavolovich McCarthy will teach two art workshops entitled “Natalie’s Landscapes” on July 7 and July 14 from 9:30 am –12:30 p.m. at Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust, 5 Church Hill Road in Woodbury. The workshops are part of Flanders’ adult art instruction series, “Inspiration Comes Naturally,” at which students learn to paint or hone their skills under the tutelage of prominent Litchfield County professional artists and inspired by the natural surroundings of Flanders’ outdoor campus. The cost per class is $18 for Flanders’ members and $24 for non-members.

            Flanders’ expansive outdoor campus encompassing fields, forests, farm, wetlands and pond inspired its founder, artist, farmer and environmentalist, Natalie Van Vleck to create her nature-themed artworks, that were the focus of her later art career. In the July 7 and 14 classes, students will learn to express their own impressions of the same landscapes, under the tutelage of Marija McCarthy.

            An interpretive realist who works in both oil and watercolor, Connecticut painter and educator, Marija Pavlovich McCarthy was born and raised in Yugoslavia. Devoted to the beauty of nature, McCarthy has spent entire summers working in regions of great artistic character, including the Adriatic Coast, the Costa Brava, the Greek Islands, Provence and the eastern shore of Maryland. She also worked for three prolific years in Pakistan and three in Tunisia.

            Her works are in the National Museum in Belgrade, the Presidential collections of Pakistan, Palestine and Tunisia and in corporate, Congressional and private collections in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.

            Educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and the Corcoran School of Art and George Washington University in Washington, DC, McCarthy has taught primarily in all mediums since 1962. She has taught at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., the Maryland College of Art and Design, the Art League in Alexandria, Virginia and currently, at the Washington Art Association in Washington, Connecticut.

            She is a signature member of the New England, Northeast and Connecticut Watercolor Societies, an artist member of the Copley Society of Art and the New Haven Paint and Clay Club and a member of the Westport Art Center.