LYN ASSELTA WORKSHOP • MAY, 2026 • COLCHESTER VT
To be “intentional” throughout your painting process is to know the story you want to tell. Your painting can’t have its own voice if you don’t know what you want it to say. This can be especially problematic in a landscape painting where the intent isn’t always clear. In this workshop, we’ll explore ways to help you focus on your intent and to create a narrative through composition and color.
MAY 1, 2, 3, 2026
FRIDAY 9-5
SATURDAY 9-5
SUNDAY 9-4
Colchester Meeting House
828 Main Street, Colchester, Vermont
COST: $320 MEMBERS (in good standing as of January 15, 2026)
$460 NON-MEMBERS
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• Cancellation Policy: To reserve a space a 50% deposit is required immediately. Full payment is due 60 days prior to the workshop. No refunds will be given within 60 days of the workshop unless we are able to fill your space. Once a workshop is wait-listed full payment is required no matter the date. Cancellation requests must be in writing.
• In the case of low enrollment or if the workshop needs to be cancelled due to unforeseen situations, VPS will refund 100% of the fee. Workshops will run based on adequate enrollment.
• Please note that we will determine whether a workshop will run approximately 30 days prior to the start date unless the contract with the artist states otherwise. Please make your travel plans accordingly.
• Exceptions will be made by discretion of the VPS Workshop Chair and/or VPS Board for a death in the family of an immediate relative or a personal emergency medical situation.
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Choosing pastel as her medium, Lyn Asselta creates vivid, thoughtful images of places that tug at her heart. These images are often purposefully meant to make her viewers feel as though they have stumbled upon a place of quiet strength and solitude. She chooses to create a narrative in her images, but welcomes and encourages you to create your own.
Lyn is a Pastel Society of America Master Pastelist, an International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) Eminent Pastelist, and a member of the Salmagundi Club of New York City. She is the founder and past president of the First Coast Pastel Society (FL) and is a Southeastern Pastel Society Master Pastelist. Her award winning paintings have appeared in shows and exhibitions throughout the United States, and in invitational exhibitions in France and China. Lyn has had the honor of being an Artist in Residence for the National Park Service at Acadia National Park in Maine. Her work has been featured in several books on the pastel medium, as well as in Pastel Journal magazine, Pratique des Arts magazine, and Plein Air magazine. In 2018, Lyn published her first book, Seeing the Landscape, a collection of her paintings and prose. Lyn has traveled extensively to teach both studio and plein air pastel landscape workshops and she is the author of Saturdays at the Cove, a weekly newsletter on life and art, that she writes and publishes from her studio each Saturday morning.
Now living in a small village in midcoast Maine after 35 years in Florida, Lyn is inspired daily by new landscapes and changes of season. Her work is represented by Gleason Fine Art Gallery in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Cutter & Cutter Fine Art, St. Augustine, FL, and The Lucy Clark Gallery in Brevard, NC.
She is a Unison Colour Associate Artist, representing Unison hand made pastels. Lyn also has developed four signature pastel sets for Jack Richeson & Company, which can be purchased through links available on this website.
