About this Event
Please join us for our Plunge Into The Arts Artist Open House featuring the work of Tammy Seymore, Susan Brown, Maria Aimone, Frank Polanco, and Sharon Pollak, Wednesday, December 18th at 6:00pm at Plunge Beach Resort.
Complimentary registration and cash bar with happy hour pricing!
About Tammy Seymore: After working in corporate sales for 30 years, Tammy had time to express her passion for watermedia. Initially she was a self-taught artist with an inherited talent from her father, who was a dedicated landscape artist. Tammy developed her own style. A resident of Fort Lauderdale, Tammy’s art reflects her environment with its incredible range of rich and sun-drenched colors and abundant wildlife.
Tammy’s prize-winning paintings are inspired by the local nature around her as well as her travels to the U.S. National Parks and abroad. She often paints using photos from her travels and will have a camera close by to capture her next subject.
Personal dedication to environmental conservation led Tammy to initially paint turtles as a major subject matter. This choice was due to their plight for survival. Tammy became known as the “Turtle Lady”! Her fascination and love of wildlife has expanded to painting the colorful birds of Florida and majestic animals of Africa.
About Susan Brown: Susan M. Brown {sbartist} : multi-media artist, graphic designer & digital content creator – with a thoughtful, yet abstracted twist on creating. Passionate about painting, collage, assemblage, photography, exploring new things and inspiring others. My style is varied and unique – altered and edgy, using materials in unexpected ways. I reside in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with my husband of 31 years. I’ve worked in the fast-paced advertising design & printing industry for nearly 30 years, and now I work for myself as a graphic artist spending my days working my computer wizardry with plenty of time left for ART-ing. I tinker around in pretty much all media and continually expand my curiosity by learning techniques and media from other artists.
About Maria Aimone: Born in Colombia and raised in Texas, Maria Aimone has now started exploring new horizons in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She and her husband of 16 years made the move to Florida in September of 2018.
Talents in the arts run deep in her family. Inspired to study architecture by her uncle in Colombia and inspirations by her aunt’s oil paintings was just the beginning of Maria’s enjoyable journey.
Now she finds that traveling moves her to capture light, color, form or even a memory wherever she goes. This discovery of new places stimulates her mind. What started as a professor’s requirement to keep a sketch book for her architecture classes at Texas A&M quickly became exciting watercolor sketch books and then paintings that could be shared with family and friends.
Right after college in the early 1990's her travels in Mexico brought about 2 exhibits in the state of San Luis Potosi. Later she married and began painting on a much larger basis. Together they continue to travel often enjoying a symbolic bottle of wine together as she records their memories. Such travels generated enough pieces for 2 more exhibits in Houston, Texas during 2014-2017. Currently while serving on the board of the Gold Coast Watercolor Society, a group dedicated to helping artists grow and she is able to continue to display her art around the area.
Since she believes everyone can paint they just need encouragement, she offers classes at her home to those that are willing to try it. She enjoys teaching others how to discover the peaceful and relaxing media of watercolor. "It is just a fascinating but challenging media. Trying out different paper, different brushes or new techniques is entertaining. There is so much to paint and so little time!”
About Frank Polanco: A photographer, multimedia artist, curator, traveler, community activist, and philanthropist with a great passion for the arts but a bigger passion for animal welfare. A native of Puerto Rico, Frank often approaches photography as a documentarian with a twist. Most of his images are taken in real-life situations, sometimes with an altered approach. Viewers are invited to participate in moments passed, moments they will never partake in because he was the only one there to witness the scene. Photography is a critical aspect of the society in which we live. Images can educate in all aspects of everyday life. Without it, we are left only with the spoken and written word. Frank's mixed media creations, paintings, drawings, and art installations often represent some of his feelings and emotions and ongoing social issues. Frank finds a lot of satisfaction in the array of projects and events he creates throug his 501 c (3) nonprofit organization, South Florida Lending Hands, such as his flags art event, ART13 One of his latest achievements includes the selection of his photo art piece SAVE ME, a picture of a turtle selected by The United Nations Environment Programme and the Climate Museum of New York. The image was printed on an eco-friendly, biodegradable flag and became part of The Flag Project at Rockefeller Center in New York The f flew high during the entire month of April 2022 at Rockefeller Center with one hundre and ninety-two other selected works of art focusing on what really matters — "Only One Earth”, the name of the exhibit Frank has been commissioned by the City of Fort Lauderdale, the City of Oakland Park, and the City of Pompano Beach, and his photos are currently displayed on Utility Boxes at various intersections of those cities in the form of public art.
About Sharon Pollak: Sharon Pollak was born, raised and educated in Connecticut. As a graduate of the University of Connecticut she worked in the field of marketing using her artistic touch to create promotional material for several New England manufacturing companies. She has always had a passion for art and has been thoroughly immersed in her painting career for the past 16 years. Primarily self-taught she has studied with several well-respected artists in CA, FL, NM, and AZ.
Sharon is now a full-time resident of Delray Beach. Her work can be seen locally at several corporate locations, as well as Vickers Artistic Framing & Gallery in Delray Beach and Pride Corner Gallery in Wilton Manors. She is a member of three South Florida groups: Women in the Visual Arts, Palm Beach Watercolor Society, Gold Coast Watercolor Society.
Sharon’s acrylic and mixed media paintings are driven by chance through layering, mixing, mark-making, and texture to create compositions that are truly unique. She is interested in the experimentation of color, light, and luminosity and strives to create a sense of balance and excitement with every composition. Each painting is a new artistic journey.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Plunge Beach Resort, 4660 El Mar Drive, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, United States
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