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Her Passion Meets the World
Written By: Zach Claxton - Highlands-Cashiers Art League | Issue: June 2024
Sue Fazio reveals the secrets behind her eclectic, electric portfolio at the Art League of Highlands and Cashiers’ meeting, June 24 at The Bascom. Everyone is invited.
Sue Fazio’s favorite line is “I paint all day, every day!” Although that is not the truth, it’s the truth of her goal and passion for painting.
Ms. Fazio will be the guest speaker at the Art League of Highlands-Cashiers’ June 24 meeting. A wine social begins at 4:30 P.M. on The Bascom terrace, with the meeting and presentation following at 5:00 P.M.
Not limiting herself to a single medium or subject matter, she works in oil, pastel, encaustic or acrylic, depending on whether she is painting animals, flowers, landscapes, people or abstracts. Two years ago, she took up pottery, throwing on the wheel. She has been obsessed with that medium because it gives her a new surface for painting. Besides her family, painting is her greatest joy. Her work is full of expressive color, shapes and textures. She says, “It is how my passion meets the world!” Her freedom of creation is evident in all of her work, and many of her pieces may be viewed on her web site, suefazio.com. She will be also be teaching her eleventh encaustics class at the Bascom, September 10-13. Often questioned as to why she doesn’t “settle” on one style, subject or medium, her answer is quite authentic: “I do not choose all the same kind of people as friends, nor eat the same foods every day or only love one place.”
Her journey as a painter has accompanied her through the dramas of raising six children, earning a doctorate in education from Florida Atlantic University, a dozen moves and marriage to golf course architect, Tom Fazio. She paints because she needs to, and she is excited with the challenge.
The proceeds from her sales benefit her hometown Boys & Girls Club of Hendersonville, North Carolina, that she and Tom founded in 1993.
We hope you will join us for this free social and presentation. For more information about the Art League, visit artleaguehighlands-cashiers.com.
