Please join WID for a special summer networking event: Art & Garden party at Laura Varsafsky Landscape Art.

Attend a Sip & Paint (limited spots for Members only), where Laura, a professional oil painter, will lead you through creating your own 8x10 landscape painting inspired by her Reflections collection, accompanied by a summer wine flight poured for you as you paint.
Or, simply come to be inspired by the painters in the studio, enjoy snacks & wine, and view Laura’s collection of art while you network and sketch in the backyard garden.

Registration closes 7/5 at noon.

Networking and Food sponsored by *TBD furniture*, available through the Work/Life Group

About the Artist, Laura Varsafsky:

Laura Varsafsky is a landscape painter, working primarily in oils. Laura grew up in Steamboat Springs, a small Colorado ski town, where hiking and skiing around in search of the perfect view to paint became an obsession at an early age. Laura studied plein air painting under local Steamboat artists, is a classically trained dancer and went on to have a career as a licensed architect, both creative disciplines that inform her artistic process. Painting professionally since 2003, Laura now resides in Denver, CO, where she creates landscape paintings in thick, textured brushstrokes and saturated color. Laura’s award-winning works are held in private collections around the country and have been shown in group and solo exhibitions around Colorado.

Laura Varsafsky Artist’s Statement:
I create from wild places I explore, where color and light build fleeting architectural shapes and patterns. My structured creative process draws on my background as an architect; iterative plein air sketches and photography inform large studio oil paintings. 'Reflections', currently on display, is a collection of paintings capturing the way the forest reflects in water, recording the distinctions between lakeshores across Colorado and Minnesota. The water’s edge is the great connector, a balm to the tension and profound polarization of today’s world; exploring the nuances of these ecotones is driven by a calling for peace and connection.