Blue Mountain School of Landscape Painting 2026
We are pleased to announce
the Artists & Dates for 2026 Workshops Additional workshop information will be made available shortly.
Registration for the 2026 workshops opens on
January 31, 2026 at 7am.
GORD JONES AND ART CUNANAN
May 25- 29 2026 • Studio • Watercolour.
Gord Jones is a Watercolour artist. He has sought direction throughout his artistic career from many of Canada’s most loved water colourists. He has always found visual communication speaks clearest, even though his interpretations leave room for
the viewer to explore and most importantly, participate in the conversation.
Gord is an elected member of the CSPWC (Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour), The SCA (Society of Canadian Artists), and enjoys memberships in the Niagara Frontier Watercolour Society, The Haliburton Arts Council, the Rails End Gallery, and is an Ontario representative of the International Watercolour Society. Gord is a certified Adult Educator.
Art Cunanan is a Canadian artist and instructor who has taught watercolour workshops at the Humber Valley Art Club. He has collaborated with other artists in workshops, such as Gord Jones His Amazing atmospheric techniques, and confident bold strokes, are so intuitive. His teaching style is a perfect combination of encouragement and inspiration.
JANINE MARSON
June 1 - 5 , 2026 •Intro to Plein Aire • Acrylic
My goals for teaching have never changed in over 40 years; to meet people where they are at and provide a warm, encouraging and engaging environment so people can lose their fear and find their individual responses in art. I’ve designed and taught every age from youth to seniors; for the Scarborough Board of Ed, The City of Scarborough, Seneca- King Campus, Continuing Ed for Georgian College, College level courses since 2013 for HSA+D Fleming College on drawing, colour and composition inspiring 1000’s of students. I have taught workshops offsite for Arts Groups such as the Marsh Street Art Painters,The Willowdale Group of Artists and for private functions and businesses. My art business and art studio is in historic downtown Huntsville Ontario, where I teach Adults both In Person and Online. My art practice includes solo/ group shows that have garnered many awards as a professional artist, and in 2018, a YWCA Muskoka Woman of Distinction Award in Art, Culture and Creativity.
JOHN DAVID ANDERSON
June 8 - 12 2026 • Plein Air • Oil/Acrylic
John is an award winning and entertaining teacher who demonstrates and lectures from his own experiences. He applies the basic techniques used by generations of artists to his unique way of seeing the landscape. Like many artists before him, the quality of light in anything he sees becomes the focus of his thinking as he works through his painting. Plein air painting is painting like no other method. Dealing with real information in a real and constantly changing environment necessitates letting go of detailed rendering and just going for an impression of what you are seeing.John builds his composition by starting with large shapes of value and then refining it with the elements of value and colour. Movement and drama are created by the skilful use of light and shadow, lost and found edges and warm and cool colours. John will focus on an approach that will give you both historical and contemporary techniques used in plein air painting. You will gain compositional skills, learn colour theory and colour mixing as applied to the light story on location.Through demonstrations, personal attention and critiques you will come away with a better handle on the joys of plein air painting.The demonstrations will be in oil but acrylic painters are easily accommodated.
MARC GRANDBOIS
June 15- 19 2026 • Plein Air • Acrylic/Oil
Marc Grandbois is a Quebec painter known for his remarkable ability to capture the essence of natural landscapes with rare emotional intensity. Born with an artistic sensitivity nurtured from an early age by his rural surroundings and the shores of the St. Lawrence River in Mauricie, he went on to study visual arts at Concordia University, graduating in 1991.
Originally a watercolorist, Grandbois gained recognition in the 1990s for the delicacy of his treatment of light and transparency. He later expanded his practice to acrylic painting, a medium that allowed him to further explore material, texture, and gesture. His artistic approach is rooted in plein air painting, a method that leads him to create directly in nature, in constant dialogue with the elements. His style lies at the intersection of contemporary Impressionism and gestural Expressionism. Rather than faithfully reproducing reality, he seeks to convey its energy, movement, and emotion. His brushstrokes are dynamic, his palette vibrant, and his compositions radiate a visual strength that transcends mere representation.
His work reflects a deep connection to the land, which he explores tirelessly. The boreal forest and its peatlands, the Saguenay Fjord, and the shores of the St. Lawrence River are dominant themes in his artistic journey. His paintings are part of numerous private and public collections in Canada and abroad.
Marc Grandbois is a painter of life, breath, and light. Through his work, he invites us to see the landscape differently—not as a backdrop, but as a vibrant, ever-changing being.
LEE MUNN
June 22 - 26 2026 •Plein Air • Acrylic/Oil
Lee Munn is a Landscape painter. Lee is a firm believer in painting in his home city & province. He travels all over Ontario in all seasons painting small pieces on location
and taking photographs, then bringing them home to his studio to
turn them into larger paintings. Nature and the outdoors have always
played a strong role in his art.
Lee is a proud member of SCA “The Society of Canadian Artists”
and OSA “The Ontario Society of Artists”. Lee has a number of
pieces of his artwork exhibited across Canada, the U.S.A and Europe
which is represented in private and public collections.