Hanging out, drinking delicious coffee, talking about art… ahhhh, that’s the life! Well, that IS the life at least for an hour or so each month at the Dunedin Fine Art Center’s Coffee and Conversation series. Enjoy coffee (Presented by the Sterling Society of DFAC) and insights as each month’s invited guest holds forth on their own area of expertise. Admission to these relaxed talks is $5 and is FREE to current DFAC members.
Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
This series welcomes Sue Beach, Lorraine Potocki & Elizabeth Ventura from the Pastel Society of Tampa Bay
The 5 W’s of Our Pastel Journeys—WHO we are, WHAT subject matter we enjoy painting the most, WHEN and WHERE did we start loving this medium, and WHY.
Sue Beach Bio
Sue Beach received her Bachelor’s and Master of Art Education Degrees from SUNY Buffalo State College. After a career of teaching art, she retired to Spring Hill, Florida where she creates drawings and paintings in a wide variety of media. Her art work has won awards with the Dunedin Fine Art Center, Hernando County Fine Arts Council, Nature Coast Art League, Pastel Society of Tampa Bay, TESA (The Exhibiting Society of Artists), Unusual Frida Art Show, and been juried into the Florida and Philadelphia Watercolor Society’s Online Shows.
Sue is a member of the Dunedin Fine Art Center, Florida Watercolor Society, Pastel Society of Tampa Bay, Philadelphia Watercolor Society and TESA (The Exhibiting Society of Artists)
She gladly welcomes commissions at suebeachart@gmail.com.
Lorraine Potocki
Growing up in Trenton, NJ, there was never a doubt that all I ever wanted to be was an artist. With an Associates in Advertising Design and a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts and Education, I found my first jobs in local ad agencies then into corporate marketing communications positions resulting in several relocations. My last corporate relocation brought me to Florida and my lifelong dream came true.
When I’m not in my studio, I’m an instructor at the Dunedin Fine Art Center.
Elizabeth Ventura Bio
Suburban born and raised Elizabeth Ventura always longed for the wider world. Much of her work is inspired by her travels around the world and life experiences living in Europe, Bermuda and New York City.
Focusing on the abstract form in both studio work and en plein air, Ventura explores landscapes from the walls of the NYC subway to beauty of Tampa Bay and everyday objects from fire extinguishers, to flowers. “Sometimes I’m overwhelmed by everything I’m experiencing all at once — shape color, form –and my goal is to express this ‘all at once feeling’ on canvas.” She says her art is an effort to record an emotional footprint of the moment.
While much of her training could be described as self-directed, her fist teacher was her artist father. In addition, Ventura benefited from classical study at The Art Students League, The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences as well as many individual classes and workshops. Her teachers have included, Karen Titus Smith, Richard Mckinley, Brian Bosmeisler, Danneille Mick and Jenny Nelson.
She lives with her husband in Clearwater, Florida with a deep love and connection with New York City.
