Middleburg Community Center ART OF THE PIEDMONT

Suzanne Lago Arthur 6Connor on Summer BreakSUZANNE LAGO ARTHUR is acontemporary realist painter whoearned a BFA with honors at theCorcoran College of Art + Designand an MA in Museum Studies fromGeorge Washington University. Hersubject matter includes still life,landscape, and conceptual figurativework as well as portrait commissions.She has exhibited to criticalacclaim in both the United States andinternationally in such venues as theCorcoran Gallery of Art, WashingtonDC, The Museum of the Americas,Washington DC, EuroAmerica Galleries,SoHo, NYC, and The United StatesSpecial Interests Section, Havana,Cuba. Most recently she placed as afinalist in the prestigious Art RenewalCenter 2011–12 International Salon.Suzanne is a member of the PortraitSociety of America, Oil Painters ofAmerica and is in the copyist programat the National Gallery of Art, WashingtonDC. For Clark, portraiture is“my ‘Thing’…The ability to render notonly the likeness, but the mannerismsand presence of a person in oil paintso that you can practically feel thatperson, is nothing short of alchemy.It is a personal experience as well,and one that creates a unique bondbetween the painter, the sitter andtheir family. Moving a mother to tearsafter seeing a finished painting of herchild is the ultimate compliment. Toput it simply, I find people fascinating.”[www.lagoarthurstudio.com]