UPDATE (Wednesday, March 5, 2025): This workship is being postponed to March 29 due to unforeseen circumstances. The registration period has also been extended, which is noted in the press release below.

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The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) is offering a one-day workshop, “Learning from Clouds” with Jill Nichols, on Saturday, March 29, from 10 am to 3 pm.

The workshop will be conducted in the lower meeting room of Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street (at the flagpole).

In the one-day workshop, Nichols will give clouds their due, leading students in studying and creating cloud structures with the use of subtle values and colors.

Nichols will demonstrate in oils and watercolors, to be followed by one-on-one instruction while students create their own cloud studies. This workshop is suitable for all levels and mediums.

Cost is $105 ($85 for SCAN members). Class size is limited and registration can be done online until March 22 at scanart.org/education. After that date, artists should contact SCAN President Adele Moros at 203-744-7690 to register, and then plan to have a check on hand the morning of the workshop.

Nichols’ painting explores both the earthbound and outer expanses of the divine cosmos. Her sense of color and composition has developed over the course of 30+ years as a commercial artist.

She earned her undergraduate degree at University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2000, she set her focus on painting, at first training at the Art Students League in NYC. In 2015 she earned her MFA in painting at Western Connecticut State University.

Her commissioned painting of Washington D.C. appeared as a backdrop for James Comey’s interview on “Face the Nation,” while another made its appearance on Showtime’s “The Comey Rule” mini-series.

Her monumental artwork “Phi,” an 8- by 3-foot painting on copper celebrating the divine feminine, was a part of the “Nasty Woman” art social movement in New Haven. It is now installed in The Vatican Observatory Museum.