John Mac Kah Studio # 236
Sadly, we have been been forced to relocate our studio, after nearly 10 years at Riverview Station. Our new location is just a few miles north at 2002 Riverside Drive, STE 42-M, just outside of Woodfin, known as The Mill at Riverside. Contact us for further information about classes and workshops. We are deeply grateful that Riverview Station will be restored and look forward to its future revival!
Drive from north on Riverside to Woodfin, or take I-26 to Exit 24 to Woodfin.
We are open from Tuesday through Saturday, from 10:30am to 6:00pm, Classes may be in session and we welcome visitors. For more information visit our website at https:// johnmackah.com
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To paint realistically is a form of intimacy, grounded in curiosity and observation. It seems dispassionate to me to render the natural world without tenderness, but I think the painter…or any artist…honors the subject to try to get it right, to render the form, likeness and phenomena mindfully. It’s very hard to impose a agenda or meaning but allow it to live on in it’s own way.
Each painting is a process of learning of how to bring those moments of clarity alive and share them. About finding a vocabulary and entering into a conversation. Part of the process of learning is also teaching, giving others tools to explore painting.
Growing up in Florida, I spent much of my time outdoors, drawing. I graduated from Ringling College of Art in 1984. A working studio, I also teach drawing, painting, plein-air, and traditional use of oils,both in my studio and area schools. My first studio opened in Asheville in 1996 in the River Arts District. Mine is a working studio and classroom, with weekly classes in drawing, preparation for painting in oil, and materials workshops.
