Workshop–Hands On: Watercolor Shadow Paintings

Explore light and shadow through watercolor painting. Using botanical still lifes and directional lighting, participants will paint the shadows cast by leaves, flowers, and other natural objects rather than the objects themselves. 

Eva Lin Fahey
Instructor

Eva Lin Fahey 张雯林 is a visual artist based in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and an MFA candidate at Clark University. Through painting and installation, she creates speculative mythologies that weave together cosmology, constellation, and imagined landscapes to explore displacement, memory, and belonging. Fahey is interested in translation as both a linguistic and material act. Her work traverses cultural and temporal gaps, constructing spaces inhabited by past, present, and future ghosts. Fahey received a BFA in Studio Arts from UMass. She is a 2025 Massachusetts Fellow at The Studios at MASS MoCA, and a recipient of the 2025 Project Evolution Grant through Assets for Artists. Her work has been featured in AGNI’s Afterlives: An AGNI Portfolio of Asian Adoptee Diaspora Writing.