The artwork of Sue Tarkin will be on exhibit at the Niceville Library throughout the month of November. Her favorite medium is encaustic (painting with wax), but she also enjoys acrylics and oils and has started making fused glass jewelry in a microwave kiln.
Sue started taking classes at Artful things with Candace in 2004 and continued taking classes at the college with Lyn Rackley (watercolor and drawing) and JB Cobb (oils and drawing) and at the Art & Design Society in Fort Walton from great artists such as Roscoe Wallace (acrylics), Faye Jones (oils and encaustics), Dale Gauvin (oils), Kelly Bout (fused glass jewelry) and many more.
Since 2006 Sue has won five awards at the Northwest Florida Fair Fine Arts Show and one from the Beaux Art Exhibition at Westwood. She also has a painting published in the Blackwater Review of 2006.
She gives God the glory for the love of art and any talent she has and her ability to share it with her grandchildren and others including over 100 children at McGriff Head Start in Fort Walton where she teaches one day a week.
Sue encourages everyone to take advantage of the wonderful art classes available in this area and would be willing to guide you in the right direction for your particular interest. 
Since she loves doing art so much she has accumulated quite a bit and will be willing to sell it at close to her cost for framing and materials and donating 20% to the library.
Sue says that artists seem to get attached to their artwork and think they will never do better so they hang onto it. Linda Kernick once said that if you give away so others will enjoy it, God will help you to create even better.
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