Coded Color Theory
Workshop - Graphics | Available
Explore new ways to infuse your paintings with vibrant energy and dynamism by incorporating unexpected yet harmonious color combinations. Learn color theory in combination with mindful and meditative practices to bring new meanings into your works.
Jason Andrew Turner is renowned for his process-based artworks that blend repetitive mark-making with coded color theory, exploring themes of mental health, cause and effect, psychic connection, and play. By juxtaposing memory and experience through meditation and the unconscious, his works fluidly navigate the realms of the mechanical and the spiritual. With over 20 years of exhibiting his personal work, Turner also brings a decade of experience as a color designer in the fashion industry.
This workshop is part of Sawtooth Luminaries, a long weekend of immersive and intensive workshops that will take place from October 11-13, 2024, in Winston-Salem, NC. This exciting new event welcomes nationally acclaimed artists to provide learning experiences for creative students of all skill levels. It expands Sawtooth's depth and scope as a community art school and aligns with our vision to be a creative hub for Winston-Salem and the entire region.
The weekend's programming will balance structured studio time in Sawtooth's landmark downtown facilities with communal lunch offerings and evening events that explore Winston's reputation as the City of Arts and Innovation.
Tuition includes three days of instruction and dedicated studio time, catered lunches, opportunities to socialize with other artists in attendance, and exclusive access to some of the city’s most beloved art institutions. Special rates at The Historic Brookstown Inn, Sawtooth’s preferred lodging partner, are available for enrolled students and guests. (Discount code is provided after registration.)
Learn more about this dynamic weekend and see the full list of workshops at sawtooth.org/luminaries
Jason Turner
I am a process based artist, using repetitive mark making in concert with coded color theory to engage in themes of mental health, cause and effect, psychic connection, and play. Working mostly in water based materials, almost always with an element of sumi ink, my abstract works dance between the mechanical and spiritual. The work focuses on the concrete and the ethereal questions that determine our existence and connectivity, by contrasting memory and experience through the lens of meditation and the unconscious.