2018 Painting Schedule

Ellie Boyd paints at Platt Farm, along Flood Bridge Road in Southbury, CT.

The POP paintout schedule has been set up, for paintouts beginning in May, ending in October.  (No paintout in August.)  YES, it WILL be nice enough to go out and paint soon.  Here is a link to the Google Calendar with all the details:  Calendar Link

Many thanks to Diane Dubreuil, John Forgione, and Geri Dunne for their enthusiasm for the sport of plein air, and their great location suggestions.

Please check it and join us!  Our first location is a repeat from 2012 -- Southbury Land Trust's Platt Farm Preserve on Flood Bridge Road, Sunday, May 20th, from 8:30 to 1:00.  Second location:  New Milford.  Link to Event PDF

Free and Open to All Artists, to gather and paint outside, in a beautiful farm setting with Victorian home, 19th c. farm buildings, and riparian vistas.  

(No instruction; bring your own supplies, snacks, lunch, folding chair.)

Parking along Flood Bridge Road, or in two designated parking areas.

No smoking.  Leave pets at home.

Directions:

I-84, Exit 14, travel North on Route 172.

Turn right on Library Road, then right on Flood Bridge Road.

No rain date

POP Benefit Show and Sale at the Southbury Public Library September 2013

It's official--come and see the show at the Southbury Public Library and join us for an open meeting on Sunday, 9/15 from 2-4 p.m. to learn about plein air painting by the artists.

Kettletown Woods Paintout August 3rd

Join POP painters at Kettletown Woods, home of the Lyons family, 1133 Kettletown Road, Southbury CT 06488. A beautiful small farm location with a number of interesting outbuildings, cows, pond, rocks, chickens and across the street a vista with a silo, and a renovated cottage and barn. Parking is at the Lyons off to side of semicircle gravel drive. Bathroom available. Bring lunch, meet the Lyons, and with members of the Southbury Land Trust board at 1:00pm, then continue painting. This is our last paintout for new participants to be eligible to enter September show to benefit the land trust. Come and bring a friend!

POP and Southbury Land Trust Hike and Paint

Gladys Taber, Nelson and Polly Camp were with us in spirit on this chilly April day celebrating the beauty of CT open space at Stillmeadow Farm in Southbury CT.  The SLT arranged the hike and a bench dedication to longtime supporters Nelson and Polly, no longer with us.  Hikers walked the proposed Stillmeadow conservation property with Joe Ruggiero and other members of the SLT board, while POP painters set up near the Taber homeplace and spent a peaceful afternoon painting.  POP artists attending:  Diane Debreuil, Karen Cashman, Zufar Bikbov, Jill Nichols, Ellie Boyd, Tina Skor, and Dorothy Calio.  Visiting:  Jose Luis Nunez.  Here are a few photos from the event:

Spirit of Gladys Taber--Southbury Land Trust and POP Join Forces Sunday, April 7th

POP artists and the Southbury Land Trust folks will meet Sunday, April 7 at the Stillmeadow Farm, Gladys Taber's writing haven, on Sanford Road for simultaneous events--a POP paintout, a SLT hike and bench dedication.   POP members will continue to help SLT with their overall mission to conserve of the natural beauty of Southbury while enjoying being out in the open spaces, and new this year, POP will help raise funds and awareness for the rebuilding of SLT's Phillips Barn.  See the attached flyer for details on the event.

Sunday, April 7th 1:30 P.M.
Parking:  at Phillips Farm
Paint at Phillips or Stillmeadow Farm (where writer Gladys Taber lived and wrote) or Hike Stillmeadow Farm and stay for dedication of the Nelson and Polly Camp bench.  There is no charge for this event.

The POP event schedule for the rest of the season is being firmed up and will be posted shortly along with plans for the September show at the Southbury Library.

Tina Wiese takes on the farm buildings. (Photo:  David Liang) 

Karen Cashman captures fog effects on Autumn leaves. (Photo:  David Liang)

Photographer David Liang of Oxford stopped to take pix of POP painters and friends in this beautiful location, Southbury Land Trust's Platt Farm on Flood Bridge Road in Southbury CT.  The fog rolled out, and we had a great time capturing the colors of Fall.

Pomperaug Outdoor Painters Event at Platt Farm October 20, 2012

Turn Right at South Britain Library off Route 172.

Sweeping View of Platt Farm on Flood Bridge Road

Please join the Pomperaug Outdoor Painters (POP) at Southbury Land Trust's Platt Farm located on Flood Bridge Road in Southbury on Saturday, October 20th, with a rain date of Sunday, October 21^st from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.  Artists of all skill levels are encouraged  to come and sketch or paint for the day at no charge.  This will be the final printout of the season.  

POP is a “plein air” (outdoor) painting group that has been formed to promote landscape painting in all media, camaraderie amongst local artists, and additionally to help in the preservation of natural spaces in the Southbury, CT area. 

The SLT Platt Farm Preserve, 110 acres, was purchased from Willis and Lillian Platt who had farmed the land for more than 50 years.  The property features, open hayfields, mature floodplain forest along the Pomperaug River, glacial boulders, a beautiful old adjacent farmhouse, and barns.   The property offers many views and painting opportunities for artists, as well as hiking companions. 

Directions:  the preserve may be reached by taking Exit 15 off of I-84.  Drive North on Route 172  to the South Britain Library. Take a right off of Route 172 onto Library Road, continue up the hill, turn right on Flood Bridge Road. As you drive down Flood Bridge, you will see many areas to paint--and a couple of places where you might park on the road.  If you continue on to the dirt portion of the road, just before you get to the far Eastern boundary of the preserve, you will see a grassy, fenced parking area on your left. Bring your own easel and art supplies, a lunch/snack and water.  No restroom facilities available.  Artists will gather at 12 for a lunch break.

For more information on this event or future events, please call or email:

Ellie Boyd, 203-264-2313, ellie@ellieboydstudio.com

New Outdoor Painting Group Southbury CT

POP first paint out to be held at Southbury Land Trust's Phillips Farm (see below for map and directions.)

Please join Pomperaug Outdoor Painters(POP), a new informal plein air group for Western CT painters and neighbors for its first paintout at the Southbury Land Trust's Phillips Farm, August 25th from 9:00-4:00 (rain date 8/26.) (See below.) We are planning to host one or more events per month, and welcome participation of artists of all levels.  A listserve is being set up to facilitate getting the word out to painters about scheduled events and impromptu painting outings.  Additionally, there is a show being planned for September 2013, and the possibility of a workshop with a nationally known instructor.  For further information call:  

Ellie Boyd, 203-264-2313

Event information:

Pomperaug Outdoor Painters to Host Plein Air Event August 25^th

Southbury, Connecticut, August 8, 2012; Please join the inaugural painting event of Pomperaug Outdoor Painters (POP) at Southbury Land Trust's Phillips Farm located on Sanford Road in Southbury on Saturday, August 25^th, (rain date,Sunday, August 26th) from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Artists of all skill levels are welcome to come and sketch or paint for the day at no charge. 

POP is a “plein air” (outdoor) painting group that has been formed to promote landscape painting in all media, camaraderie amongst local artists, and additionally to help in the preservation of natural spaces in the Southbury, CT area.  

The SLT Phillips Farm offers 105 acres of panoramic ridgeline views, pastoral meadows, uncommon old growth forest, and delicate marsh and wetland areas. Located on unpaved Sanford Road, where the popular author Gladys Taber lived and wrote about the pleasures of country living, Phillips Farm is a scenic emblem of Southbury's rural past. Connected to Phillips by hiking trails, Lovdal Farm next door also hosts a variety of wildlife, birds, agricultural fields, plants and trees – even an old apple orchard - on the 50-acre property.  Together, the properties offer many views and painting opportunities for artists. Parking is on the grassy area, to the right of the entrance.  Be sure to bring your own easel and art supplies.  No restroom facilities available.

Bring a friend and join us for the day.  There is plenty of hiking for non-artists.  

Come and enjoy one of Southbury Land Trust's fine preserves.

Directions to Southbury Land Trust Phillips Farm:

About 5 minutes from Exit 15.

From Exit 15, head South on Route 67.

About .4 mile, take Right on Jeremy Swamp Road.

Travel 1.8 miles then take Right on Sanford Road

In .2 miles on Left, turn into entrance to Phillips Farm and park on right in grassy area.

Map:

New to oil painting, Keely Riel trys out plein air painting at Phillips Farm.