Artwork Barn Studio in Hanover is an inventive haven for artists

HANOVER – A large barn at 674 Webster St. fulfilled the goals of artist and educator Robyn Thompson-Duong, who based The Artwork Barn Studio. The ethereal, picket internal bustles with grownup and kids’s categories and per month sip-and-paint events.

“I used to be having a look in Boston for an area to hire out for portray events and categories, but if I noticed the barn in Hanover, it was once very best,” stated the 43-year-old visible artist. 

There are categories on portray, drawing, collages, printmaking and nature journaling. This can be a area the place the landlord combines her artistry and her interest for educating. 

“Since 2008, I’ve been educating artwork in some capability in personal after which public colleges,” she stated. “The pandemic modified my belief of items. I sought after to do one thing alone.” 

Thompson-Duong is a modern realist painter.  She focuses on portraits and is busy with artwork commissions, reveals and presentations. She gave digital categories throughout the Museum of Wonderful Arts Boston and the Rhode Island Faculty of Design and taught artwork at Pierce Heart Faculty in Milton for 10 years.

She is the mum of two women, ages 8 and 5, and her husband is An Duong. They moved to Hanover to be nearer to her members of the family who reside in Marshfield and Plymouth.  

All over the pandemic, when The Artwork Barn Studio opened, she started with on-line categories, then gave in-person courses restricted to 1  or two scholars.  This summer season is the primary time The Artwork Barn is providing kids’s categories. 

“I’m no longer certain who has extra a laugh, me or them. I opened it to kids for the reason that area is so gorgeous and it has a super power,” she stated. “I think grasping no longer sharing it. Instructing children helps to keep me younger.”  

Grownup shoppers depart insecurities in the back of, and being in combination is healing, Thompson- Duong stated. 

“You might have conversations about existence generally,” she stated. “There’s a camaraderie that occurs and also you sit up for the categories.” 

Budding and seasoned painters proportion concepts and encouragement.

“It’s necessary to be round different artists, being with like-minded other people; it’s really useful throughout,” she stated. 

Portrait portray is her forte, even if Thompson-Duong does a variety of paintings that comes with landscapes, nonetheless existence and extra.

“I pay attention to portraiture. I really like faces and I really like the problem to seize an individual’s likeness. I would like it to appear to be the individual, and I would like it to really feel like the individual.”