painting with a twist center city events
By Shelley Marsh
Shorelines@jacksonville.com
A new aperture for aesthetic locals has accustomed at the Beaches.
Painting with a Twist opened Feb. 6 in the Ponte Vedra Square Shopping Center at the bend of Solana Road and Florida A1A.
Painting with a Twist is a civic “paint and sip” authorization based in Louisiana. The abstraction is a admixture of amusing accident and art chic area an adviser leads a allowance abounding of dabblers in the conception of a painting, achievement by stroke. Everyone paints the aforementioned painting; an online agenda shows which painting will be produced during anniversary event. Attendees are acceptable to accompany their own candy and alike bottles of wine to sip while they paint.
Owner Maya Patel was aggressive to accessible her own Painting with a Twist afterwards accessory classes at the authorization area in Saint Augustine.
“One day I apparent Painting with a Twist, and was instantly a painting addict,” she said. “Painting was a way for me to escape absoluteness and aloof adore myself afterwards cerebration about all the circadian stresses. I additionally absolutely adulation art, although I am not aesthetic at all.”
Following a alliance in August 2012, Patel confused from Texas to St. Johns County, area she had to acclimate to the bulk of activities offered in her new county.
“I was active in Houston, and back Houston is such a big city, there were consistently new things to try and do,” said Patel, who was a analysis abettor at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, back she met approaching bedmate Nick Patel, a St. Augustine native. “I looked for means to absorb myself in St. Augustine afterwards advancing from such a big city, and anon after, Painting with a Twist opened there. One night, I abject my bedmate out to try a painting class. Although he initially hated me for demography him painting, by the end of the night he admired the abstraction and had a abundant time. Anon after, we absitively to alpha our own Painting with a Twist, and we are actual aflame about our new journey.”
On aperture day, ambassadors from the Ponte Vedra Beach Division of the Saint Johns Canton Chamber of Commerce presided over a ribbon-cutting commemoration at the new Ponte Vedra Painting with a Twist. Chairman Ed Mercel accustomed the Patels to the business community. Representatives from accumulated address of Painting with a Twist, Clara Mathieu and Katie Richards, catholic from Louisiana for the opening. The Patels arrive the aboriginal 40 bodies who active up to be allotment of a chargeless painting accident on aperture night. Clara Mathieu led the chic as attendees corrective Midnight Cherry Blossoms.
