KLAUS PORSCH
I was born in Berlin Germany.
I always enjoyed sketching and painting in watercolor since my early
school years.
In 1952 I took Art, Fashion and Graphic classes in Berlin Germany.
Kunstschule am Adenauerplatz.
In 1957 my wife Gerda and I came to Tampa and made it our home.
Art related activities
As a retired businessman I rediscovered painting.
Jan. 2001. Fully retired I am devoting all of my time to study
drawing and painting. Books, workshops, and videos of great artists
and live drawing classes have made me the artist I am now.
Mar. 2004. I took Ybor-City's HCC classes painting in oil and
acrylic.
Awards
Jan. 2006. Honorable mention at the Tampa Realistic Artists,
Inc. oil & acrylic Open Competition, with the “Garden Gate in
Spring” in oil.
Nov. 2006. Third Place with “In the Shade on the Gulf” in
oil, at the Tampa Realistic Artists, Inc. Open Competition in oil &
acrylic.
Feb.03.2007. Third Place with “Cottage on the Gulf” in oil,
at the Art of Love a Juried Show of the North Tampa Arts League and
the Frame by Frame Gallery.
Oct. 2. 2007. Honorable Mention at the Tampa Realistic
Artists, Inc. oil & acrylic Open Competition, with the oil painting
“Close to Nature”.March
28. 29. & 30. 2008 BEST OF SHOW at the second annual South Shore
Plein Air Festival at the Resort & Club at Little Harbor, Ruskin,
Florida; with his
Oil painting “Little Bridge”.
July
13. 2008 Honorable Mention at the North Tampa Art League Open
Summer
“Docked for the weekend”.
Sept. 11, 2009 Award of Merit at the Visual Arts Alliance
Fine Arts Show, Tampa, Florida with the 18 x 24 oil painting "Beach
View"
February 12. 2010 BEST OF SHOW at the North Tampa Arts
League's Expression of Love, with the oil painting "Symphony of the
Leaves"
Exhibitions
Oct. 2004. The Avant Gard of the Tampa Museum of Art selected
me to display my paintings for the year 2005.
Dec.16. 2004. “Sip, Savor & Shop” Holiday event of the Avant
Garde at the Tampa Museum of Art.
Feb. 20. 2005. Juried Art Show at the Alexandria Art Gallery.
Land O’ Lakes, Florida.
Dec. 03. 2005. Alexandria Gallery Artist Co – Op Grand
Opening. Land O’ Lakes, Florida.
Jan. 2006. Winter Exhibition, Alexandria Gallery Artist Co –
Op. Land O’ Lakes, Florida.
July. 16. 2006
Pasco Arts Council’s 2006 Art Annual, a judged open
exhibition in Holiday, Florida
Nov. 11. & 12. 2006 Temple Terrace Community Arts Festival. A
juried outdoor Fine Art Show.
March 10. & 11. 2007 Anna Maria Island Spring Fest. A juried
outdoor fine art & craft Festival.
April 28. & 29. 2007 Long Leaf Arts on the Village Green. A
juried outdoor Arts Festival.
November 17. & 18. 2007 Second Annual New Tampa Arts Festival
at Tampa Palms
March 7. & 8. 2008 Anna
Maria Island Florida Spring Fest. A juried outdoor fine art & craft
Festival.
April 26. & 27. 2008 Suncoast Arts Fest. New Port Richey FL.
A Juried outdoor fine Art & Craft Show.
August 6. to September 29. 2008
TECO Art Exhibition at the TECO Plaza In Tampa
Florida.
November 1. & 2. 2008
Dunedin Art Harvest. A juried outdoor fine art &
craft show
in Dunedin Florida.
November 15. & 16. 2008
New Tampa Arts Festival. A juried outdoor fine art &
craft
Show in Tampa Florida.
Affiliations
Tampa Realistic Artists. Inc., The North Tampa Arts League,
, Friends of the Carrollwood Cultural Center, Inc. Tampa.
The Suncoast Bird Sanctuary, Indian Shores, Florida. |
