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Juan Peña, Jade Fon Woo & Morris Shubin
Jade Fon Woo
In 1963 I attended a Jade Fon Woo art demonstration. His demonstration was held at a San Francisco
Society of Western Artists monthly meeting. There I saw and met Jade Fon Woo. Jade was an Alameda
adult education teacher and watercolor teacher at Diablo Valley College. Jade helped me consolidate all
my art skills and painting abilities together through his watercolor painting classes and on location
painting workshops.
In addition to his weekly classes, Jade conducted workshops three times a year. Each workshop
included four days of instruction. Jade offered these on location painting workshops in watercolor at the
Asilomar, California State Conference Grounds near Monterey, California.
Each year Jade would let me tag along to the workshops. I worked for him on the stage, moving
paintings from easel to easel. Jade would invite four noted watercolor painters to instruct at the Asilomar
workshops.
At Asilomar’s nightly program, four art instructors would critique each attending art student’s painting.
I would help students find their way around the Asilomar campus and run errands for Jade Fon Woo. In
trade, my tuition was free.
At each workshop I learned something new. It seemed, through no plan of mine, the master appeared.
Jade Fon Woo was one of my masters and one of my most inspirational teachers.
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