Discover Your Creative Talent in the Poconos

Discover your creative side and enhance your lifestyle at Pennsylvania's idyllic self-discovery retreat. Explore new or hidden talents in our Creative Discovery programs, with choices such as watercolor painting, drawing, drumming and cooking classes that help you tap into your self discovery and spiritual awareness.

Poconos Art Classes

Introduction to Drawing

Awaken your creativity with visual expression and discover your inner artist. Drawing differs from painting in that it is much more exploratory with emphasis on observation and composition. Leave inspired by your self discovery and with a picture that shows off your rejuvenated artistic energy.

Watercolor Painting

Explore new, hidden, or forgotten talents. This two-hour watercolor painting class offers you the opportunity to express your feelings through simple brushstrokes.

Discover the pure beauty of nature and our surroundings by taking time to stop and really notice the colors and textures of our Pennsylvania countryside and capture it on paper. Leave with a finished work of art and a new or renewed creative side.

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Art Gallery Exhibit

The Art Gallery at The Lodge at Woodloch encourages and celebrates the artistic endeavors of local and regional artists. Artists currently on display in the Art Gallery include:

• Renee Ehrlich Kalfus

  Trained in painting at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Renee Ehrlich Kalfus also studied in Italy where her work remains in private collections. Her interest in color and design led to a successful career as a costume designer in motion pictures. Her work can be seen in films such as “Dead Man Walking”, “Chocolat”, “What's Eating Gilbert Grape”, “The Cider House Rules” and “Snow Falling on Cedars”.
  
  The Jamaica Series here are paintings inspired from trips to Jamaica, where Kalfus captured the essence of local color, light, and the appealing interplay of organic shapes. Also in this exhibit the artist portrays other locations - Newfoundland, Spain and the desolate early spring of New York State. "Rocks and trees have the same interest for me as do portraits. I wish to capture the moment whent he light falls a certain way and I connect with the subject," said Ms. Kalfus. The artist resides in Millwood in Westchester County, New York with her family.
  
  

• Sara Colby

  Canadian painter Sara Colby studied art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Byram Shaw School of Art in London, England. The artist often paints edges of landscapes, places where land is rimmed by water. Snowy paths transport us into woods or over luscious green or snowy white hillsides. Sometimes the edges are well-defined, other times the lines between land and water or sky are obliterated. In all seasons we get the feeling from Colby's work that there is a drama of moody weather.
  
  “I use my work as a form of communication, endeavoring to touch the viewer with a memory of a favorite time of day, a season, or an angle of light. My paintings evoke walks in fields or quiet country roads. I use patterns and rhythms, shadows, branches, distant fields, to show informal glimpses of peaceful life. With a strong sense of design, my paintings sometimes verge on abstract.” Ms. Colby's work is what The Lodge is all about - observe and get lost in nature.
  
  

For more information about the artists, please inquire with the concierge or contact Kiesendahl+Calhoun: Nancy Kiesendahl 914-741-2573 or Camilla Calhoun 914-332-4842 www.kandcgallery.com
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