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Sarasota News Leader January 17, 2014 Page 126 PARENT ART SHOW ON VIEW AT MITZI VOELKER GALLERY IN VENICE Artwork by Roger Parent, a past president of the Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society, will be on display at Venice Theatre's Mitzi Voelker Gallery through Feb. 7, the theatre has announced. the variety of shapes and colors and the play of light and shadow. The paintings in this show include sketches in watercolor and pastel, including award-winning watercolors of San Miguel de Allende, Parent has won awards in regional exhibitions "where he has spent considerable time since "for his skillful use of vibrant color" and lively retiring," the release adds. His home is in energetic brushwork," a news release says. Sarasota. He is a participating member of the Florida He has served as a juror and taught a workWatercolor Society and was accepted in its shop series of six sessions on color and juried exhibitions in 2012 and 2013. design for artists at the Venice Art Center, the release notes. He also provides coaching and Parent "finds that people are a remarkable individual instruction to artists at all levels of subject for painting, especially in portraits experience. or when they are in candid gestures," the release adds. "The urban landscape is espe- Venice Theatre is located at 140 W. Tampa Ave. cially inspiring to him," it notes, because of on the island in Venice. Visit venicestage.com. Roger Parent shows visitors one of his untitled works. Contributed photo