Watershed Workshop: Drawing in Place with Eleanor Conover
Sat, Sep 05
|Langlais Art Preserve
How can an observational drawing practice extend beyond a single, illusionistic image of a landscape? In this open-ended drawing workshop, we’ll focus on the relationship between text and image, using the built and natural surroundings of the Langlais Art Preserve.
Time & Location
Sep 05, 2026, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Langlais Art Preserve, 576 River Rd, Cushing, ME 04563, USA
About the event
Artist Eleanor Conover will lead an open-ended drawing workshop focused on the relationship between text and image, using the built and natural surroundings of the Langlais Art Preserve as a point of departure. We'll ask: how can an observational drawing practice extend beyond a single, illusionistic image of a landscape? Beginning with perceptual drawing and sensory notation, participants will be encouraged to build on this work with text, texture, and collage, resulting in hybridized, open-ended drawings that can be understood as a record of place and time.
About Eleanor: Eleanor Conover (she/her) is an artist whose work engages with the physical and material conditions of painting as a metaphor for environmental space and experience. Based in Topsham, she teaches painting and drawing at Bowdoin College and has a lifelong tie to the landscape of coastal Maine. https://www.eleanorconover.com/
Watershed Workshops have a pay what you can ($10 suggested) registration fee, to…