The Wellington Art Society will host Lupe Lawrence, one of Florida’s most accomplished artists, as the featured speaker at the group’s March meeting, “The Unstoppable Dream.”
The meeting will be held Tuesday, March 11 at 5:30 p.m. at the Wellington Community Center (12150 W. Forest Hill Blvd.). The evening will also include a meet-and-greet, member spotlight and raffle. For more information, contact presidentofwas@gmail.com.
Lawrence cried when she first set her eyes on the John Constable painting The Hay Wain. She was only six, but she already knew she was going to paint.
It took many years and several disappointments before she was able to realize her dream, the unstoppable dream, to make others feel the way she did when she first fell in love with a painting. It was more than a passion, it was to become her life.
Born in Havana, Cuba, Lawrence is greatly inspired by nature and the changes and effects of light. Her major influences come from historical painters and how they used pigment to create vibrant and textured oil paintings using a limited palette of only four colors. For her art, Lawrence utilizes canvas and materials like wood, silk, metal, gold leaf, rag paper, mirror and ceramic tile.
Learn more about her work at www.artistsofpalmbeachcounty.org/lupe-lawrence.
For more information about the Wellington Art Society, visit www.wellingtonartsociety.org.
