Pair Painting: Lovely Sunset

Family Activities -

Winter/Spring 2025

This class is a fun "date night" for you and your child to paint together. No experience is needed as this class is about having fun and spending quality time together. Each person is provided a 16x20” canvas, acrylic paints, and all the supplies needed to create their own masterpiece that can stand alone or be hung side by side for a combined work of art. The instructor will lead you through the painting process with step-by-step instructions. Ages five and older with an adult.

Vanessa Merry

Vanessa Merry moved to Florence, Italy at the age of eighteen to study the methods of the great masters in painting, drawing, and printmaking at Palazzo Spinelli. From there she continued her education and exploration of the human-figure, still-lifes, and landscapes at Atelier de Chimere in France were she enjoyed Plein-Air painting in the French countryside. She moved back to the United States were she attended and graduated from the University of Minnesota in Visual Arts and Art History.
She has been actively involve in the Twin Cities art scene for many years. Vanessa Merry has won several awards for her paintings in local galleries. She was the President of the Robbin Gallery in Robbinsdale, Minnesota and is currently on the staff of WARM (Women's Art Resources of MN).
Vanessa currently enjoys creating works of art in many different styles, but finds herself happiest when she is in the classroom teaching others all the skills that she has acquired in her studies.

February 2025