Heritage Fine Arts Guild Presents: Adventures in Abstraction – An Open Media Workshop with Ellen Moershel
Heritage Fine Arts Guild Presents: Adventures in Abstraction – An Open Media Workshop with Ellen Moershel
Workshop Details:
📅 Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
📍 Location: Ascension Lutheran Church, 1701 W Caley Ave, Littleton, CO 80120
💲 Cost: $35 for Guild members | $75 for non-members
📝 Register: https://www.heritage-guild.co
Workshop Description:
This workshop will be structured around abstract drawing and painting. It will include exercises in drawing from memory, nostalgia, and visceral feeling. Attendees will be working on creating from instinct and personal perception. We will be practicing automatic drawing and how to translate ephemeral mark making into a structured piece. There will be a discussion on using negative space, minimalism, maximalism, originality, source material, unlearning technique and theory and, inversely, how to use formal training to complete an abstract composition. The workshop will be an exploratory, playful and meditative escape into two-dimensional fantasy.
➡️ Open media: This is an open media workshop; however, attendees are encouraged to bring scratch paper or a sketch book and utensils for preliminary drawing. Please bring a supply of color media (doesn’t have to be paint!) and a painting surface such as canvas or archival paper to be turned into a piece of art. Collage and print making are also welcome.
Artist Bio:
Ellen Moershel is a painter originally from Oklahoma who has lived along Colorado’s Front Range for over a decade. Before relocating to pursue her love of mountains, she spent time in St. Louis and Nova Scotia. She holds a BFA in Painting from the University of Oklahoma.
Moershel’s studio is in Thornton, Colorado, where she resides with her husband, daughter, and calico cat. Her painting practice is shaped by her engagement with the natural world, drawing inspiration from mountain scenery, gardening, and her tropical plant.
Visit www.ellenmoershel.com to learn more about Ellen and her work
This workshop is made possible in part by funding from the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) and the Littleton Arts & Culture Grant. We are grateful for their continued support of the arts in our community.
Register now and explore Adventures in Abstraction with Ellen Moershel.
Visit heritage-guild.com to sign up and learn more.