Come join us at the historic Sutton Common in Sutton, Massachusetts on Wednesday October 14th 2026 from 11am to 1pm! All are welcome as we set up on site and paint a painting of the Polly’s Antiques building, built in 1839! If you’d like to create your own masterpiece, you can take photos, sketch, watercolor paint, draw, or whatever you’d like. You could watch talented artist Dianne Panarelli Miller as she paints plein air on site, showcasing the beauty of this historic location.
Image by Faolin42
You can bring your own cameras, sketchbooks, and painting supplies if you wish. For those who don’t have supplies, we’ll have loaner sketching supplies, painting supplies, and cameras on hand for those who want to participate hands on. Note that this isn’t a “paint along” workshop where Dianne stops to wait for you to follow along. Dianne will be painting and talking about what she’s doing as she goes. You’re welcome to sit and watch her, or you can also paint / photograph / sketch at your own pace.
You’re welcome to simply pop in and watch for a while!
This event is fully open to ALL people of all levels, ages, and abilities. We encourage community members to stop in and learn more about creating art! FREE!
Our featured artist is the talented Dianne Panarelli Miller:
Location:
Sutton Common
314 Boston Rd
Sutton, MA 01590
If you specifically would like to try your hand at painting on location – known as plein air – here’s a workshop Dianne Panarelli Miller did for us, giving ideas how to prepare for plein air painting. Take a look!
Here’s a written list of items to bring with you when you do your own plein air painting. Note that at the this Sutton event we’ll have supplies on hand for this community event, if you’d like to borrow ours to give this a try. So you don’t need to bring supplies to Sutton. Still, if you’d like to build up your own travel bag of items, this page will get you started.
Here’s a workshop Dianne did previously for us in Auburn, to show her painting style:
Dianne’s biography:
Dianne Panarelli Miller is a world reknown artist painting in Canada, Bermuda, and Europe. She is an award winning Boston-based “Plein Air Painter” of color and light and is a signature member of the New England Plein Air Painters and is a “Copley Master”. Her approach combines the classic atelier training of the “Boston School”, with a mastery of technique of her own personal style expressed through the harmony of color and design. The original Boston School way of painting seeks to combine the truth of impressionist color with good drawing, sound composition and skillful paint handling. Its leading exponents included Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, William Paxton, Joseph Decamp, Philip Hale, R.H. Ives Gammell. Gammell was a turn of the century Boston Museum School pupil of the first three men and later consulted with Paxton. Robert Douglas Hunter and Robert Cormier (with whom Miller studied ) were students of Gammell. David Lowery and Robert Moore, also students of Gammell rounded off her studies.
Enter her website to see her versatile style which allows her to capture her subjects with sensitivity and detail. Her work can be seen all over the country.
You can learn more about Dianne here:
This event is supported by a grant from the Sutton Cultural Council, which is part of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
