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Painting Hydra: Color, Light & Visual Storytelling

with Kimberly Trowbridge - September 8-15, 2026

Painting Hydra: Color, Light & Visual Storytelling

with Kimberly Trowbridge - September 8-15, 2026

An unforgettable journey of color, form, and narrative on the Island of Hydra!

Dates: September 8-15, 2026
Instructor: Kimberly Trowbridge
Venue: Hotel Hydroussa, Island of Hydra, Greece
Medium: All mediums welcome – Kimberly will demonstrate gouache and collage
Level: All – Experience with medium of choice recommended

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Join Kimberly Trowbridge for an unforgettable week of painting, observation, and discovery on the enchanting Greek island of Hydra. Surrounded by the island’s sparkling harbor, sunlit streets, and the ever-changing light of the Aegean Sea, you’ll discover new ways to see, simplify, and respond to the world around you.

Kimberly will guide you in exploring color, shape, and composition as tools for capturing not just what you see, but the feeling and spirit of a place. Through a process of careful observation and simplification, you’ll learn how to create expressive paintings that reflect your own unique experience of Hydra.

Each day begins with creating small “color notes” on location-quick studies that explore value, temperature, intensity, and shape. Working in the medium of your choice, you will  create visual studies inspired by Hydra’s colorful harbor, winding cobblestone streets, iconic donkeys, and brilliant Mediterranean light.

Along the way, Kimberly will offer demonstrations, personalized instruction, and supportive group critiques to help you strengthen your skills and develop your own artistic voice.

About the Instructor

Kimberly Trowbridge is a visual artist and educator who combines painting, sculpture, language, performance, and site-specific research. She has taught visual concepts in painting and drawing for nearly 20 years and is the Director of the Modern Color Atelier, a multi-year painting program through Gage Academy of Art, Seattle. In 2018-2020, Kimberly was Creative Fellow at Bloedel Reserve, a 150-acre garden amid an old growth forest in the Pacific Northwest. Her first solo museum exhibition, Into the Garden, at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (2021), showcased a selection of 42 paintings installed as a narrative walk-through, revealing the themes and insights from her time on the field. A published catalog accompanied the exhibition. In 2021, Trowbridge completed a 30-foot, 3-dimensional mural as part of the Facebook Open Arts Commission. The installation highlights the flora and fauna of the PNW within a pedagogical context of color and shape.

Trowbridge has exhibited her work in numerous galleries both regionally and nationally, and her work is part of numerous private and public collections, including the Microsoft Collection and the King County Public Art Collection. She is a two-time Neddy Award Finalist (2014, 2016), a Gallery4Culture awardee for her exhibition Framing Perception (2015), and an Artist Trust GAP Grant recipient (2014). She has led field-painting tours in Spain, Portugal, Twisp, WA, and Tieton, WA.

Trowbridge is represented by J. Rinehart Gallery, in Seattle, WA.

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With over 10 years of experience organizing art tours, and with part of our team, my daughters Anne and Amy, living in Europe and fluent in Italian and Spanish, we have the ability not only to maintain long term relationships with the owners and staff of our favorite venues, but to seek out and vet new and unique locations each year. We personally participate in every travel workshop to ensure the quality of the accommodations and cuisine as well as to coordinate the special needs of the art instruction program.

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