Dedham Art Association’s Chinese Brush Painting Demonstration with Gary Heise
Non-members are invited to attend meetings for a $5 donation to our Community Fund.
Beyond the Valley
Ink and Watercolor by Gary Heise
18” x 27”
Soon after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1983 with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Painting, Gary took a series of classes in the basics of Chinese traditional painting with Liao Shiou-ping, a Taiwanese painter and printmaker. Studying with Mr. Liao enabled him to integrate Chinese painting techniques into his own watercolor work. Heise’s watercolors depict the landscape using Chinese painting materials (ink, brush, and Chinese papers) combined with both Eastern and Western painting techniques. He is inspired by a personal experience of the landscape; from views of the local landscape to imaginative, semi-abstract scenes.
Gary and his wife Janelle moved to Warren, RI in 2022. Since that time, he has been able to devote much of his activity to painting—exhibiting regularly with the Imago Gallery in Warren, Studio Hop in Providence, and the Rhode Island Watercolor Society, based in Pawtucket. Heise participates in RISD Craft, a bi-annual alumni street fair. Gary is currently the director of the East Side Art Center in Pawtucket, RI, and started teaching Chinese watercolor classes there this past year.