Nancy Lauby

Acrylic on Nature

Nancy has been a professional artist for over 25 years.  Her background also includes a degree in education from Barry University and years of teaching young children.

Nancy worked with various mediums before deciding that acrylic painting was what she most enjoyed.  Nancy’s commitment to look beyond the traditional lead her to use products from nature as her canvas, palm frond boots and stones; thereby integrating sustainable materials into her work to create unique 3D art.

Nancy is an active member the Creative Artists Guild and the Professional Association of Visual Artists (PAVA). She currently serves as a PAVA Board member. Her work is represented in numerous art galleries in the Tampa Bay area as well as in many private collections both in the USA and internationally.

Connie Parkinson

Lampworking – Beads & Glass

In 1995, after years of collecting beads from all over the country, Connie Parkinson finally made the leap and took her first beadmaking class from a local lamp worker in the Tampa Bay area. From the very first bead, she knew that she had found her true passion: “lampworking” or the art of melting and manipulating glass in a flame.

Connie makes her creations at home in her own personal glass studio and prides herself on never mass-producing her inventories. She sells her work in galleries and specialty stores and participates in juried art shows around the State.

“Lampworking” is the art of melting and manipulating glass in a flame. The glass is wound around a steel welding rod (called a mandrel). When the bead is complete, it is annealed in a kiln, and when cooled is removed from the mandrel, cleaned, and made into jewelry.

David Lawrence

International Photography

David is constantly amazed by the beauty and order of nature. His curiosity and sense of wonder has been fueled by a degree in environmental biology and extensive travel on assignment. He sees our world as a giant collage made up of unlimited small elements. His work ranges from large-scale panoramic landscapes to detailed macro views. Sometimes looking at the “whole scene” and other times studying the geometry and colors found in the details.

Ever evolving, his photographic career has journeyed from the world of corporate clients and international picture agencies to creating murals and artwork from his personal image collection.

Through his photography he hopes to encourage others to explore “our world”, enjoy it, preserve it, and to be more diligent in making balanced choices concerning our natural environment and historical landmarks.

Evelyn Dufner

Acrylic & Mixed Media Artist

Evelyn is fascinated by the collective experiences and stories that weave through the human experience. As a storyteller, she often plays with concepts of self-awareness, evolution and exposure, sensuality, vulnerability, and whimsy. Her work exhibits similar narratives, providing windows to her own sense of self in order to connect to the rest of the world.

Her current body of work utilizes acrylic, ink, paper, stencils and collage to create texture and contrast. She is known for working in bold, vibrant colors, often blending directly on the canvas, sometimes pushing, washing, or dripping medium, or pollinating brushes with different paint colors.

Carol Sackman

Dunedin Mosaic House

Carol’s life revolves around art, so much so that her Dunedin, Florida residence has, in itself, become an enormous ongoing work of art that is now a year-round tourist attraction that hosts the area’s annual Studio Waltz and open house sale. Working primarily in mosaic, fiber and painting, the interior and exterior walls of the house are a sight to behold, not to mention the home’s cabinetry, closets, and other such fixtures. In 2013, she and her husband, artist Blake White, were commissioned to create and install a large mosaic mural for the Tampa Aquarium. In stating “Art is for everybody,” Ms. Sackman goes on to say, “It’s up to you. There are no more parent rules. Do what pleases you; what makes you happy.”

Jenna Friedman

Plein Air – Nature

Jenna is a passionate painter of nature and is happiest when outside painting (known as painting en plein air).  She is fascinated with the natural world and inspired by the beauty of the landscape.  She is very much affected by the quality of light and tries to record the way it makes her feel.

Jenna has been painting most of her life. “I need to paint!” she reports.  Each painting is a learning process and a journey for Jenna. Sometimes she feels she is just starting to figure things out and sometimes she thinks she will never really get it.   And  sometimes, according to Jenna, a painting just flows and everything comes together almost without effort.  Those are the zen moments she is hoping for.  The rest of the time she is determined to enjoy the journey. 

Pam Pawl

Fiber Arts

Being a painter at heart, Pam respects the technical part of weaving but uses dyeing to provide spontaneity to her craft. She hand-dyes most of her warps. Being a spinner in spirit, she dyes and sells natural fiber yarns and supports US mills and those small farms that now spin their own fibers.  Being a weaver, she enjoys imagining the structure of her next project, drafting the design and making calculations before approaching the loom. When she finally weaves, the rhythm of the beater and the lifting of threads is her meditation.  The power from her body, structure in her head, materials from her hands and color from her heart all come together to build order from chaos, fabric from miles of yarns, and sense a joy from hard work.