St. Armand's Art Show

It's not our art, but our heart that's on display.

                                  Gary Holland

For the past few years we have enjoyed going to the St. Armand's Art Show to see some very fine quality works of art.  St. Armand's is on an island (or key as it's called here in Florida).  It's actually a huge circle that you can drive around in your car.  The circle is really a park, but it is filled with white canopy's during this art show.  The booths go all around the outer circle and there are paths that lead to an inner circle.  There are approximately 150 exhibitors from across the country.  The photo below shows Sarasota Bay and St. Armand's is located across from it.

The next two photos where taken from the inner circle...

This is a fine art show, with really high quality works of art and with really high prices that go right along with them.  Needless to say, we don't purchase anything, but we do like to go and look. 

This next one is painted on rice paper.  It's impossible to see from this photo, but it was really spectacular in person and almost looked three dimensional.

Read carefully and you'll see these boats and water scenes were painted and not photos...

  It seems like there are several shows every weekend in this area and it's nearly impossible to go to all of them.  I'll be posting other photos over the next few months showing more shows that we'll be going to so you can see some other great works of art.