Paints ‘n’ Pints

Join us at Stamford Coffee for a night of sipping and painting!

A still life will be set up and participants will be instructed in gouache painting by teaching artist Lisbeth Firmin. Enjoy the beer and wine that Stamford Coffee has to offer- the first drink is included in the entry fee!

Lisbeth Firmin is a contemporary American realist whose paintings and monotypes explore the relationship between people and their urban environment, while simultaneously capturing the energy and light of a specific moment in time. Her urban landscapes, following in the tradition of earlier realists such as John Sloan, George Bellows, and Edward Hopper, depict a feeling of human solitude, of people headed somewhere undisclosed. She is not interested in producing a literal translation of her subject matter, but aims instead to ride the line between abstraction and realism, letting the viewer provide the final interpretation.

Firmin has been drawing and painting since childhood, and studied independently with printmaker Seong Moy, and painters Philip Malicoat, Victor Candell, and Leo Manso in Provincetown in the early 70’s. Her art has expanded from early depictions of lonely highways done from solitary road trips, to painting the neighborhoods and street scenes surrounding her downtown New York City apartment, where she lived for more than 25 years. Firmin’s work evolved further after a move to upstate New York in 2000, as she gradually moved away from the street scenes to concentrating more on the light on the human figure in an urban environment.

Firmin teaches drawing at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston Salem, NC and painting/printmaking at the Truro Center for the Arts, Castle Hill, Cape Cod, MA.

Her current work in monoprints and oils can be found on her website: lisbethfirmin.com