Laurie Tavino

“My artwork is rooted in drawing and history. Influences from studying Life Drawing, Art History and Old Master techniques show themselves in my eclectic collections. Landscape paintings and hand-colored photographs are not only artwork but are historical documentations of scenes that are or were often part of my home town and daily life. It is important to me to keep traditional techniques alive and valid as art forms, be it Silverpoint drawing or tinting conventional photographs with oil colors. In everyday themes such as a landscape or a still life, I try to utilize the play of light or fluid brush strokes to depict motion and drama. Subject matter, techniques, and style are varied to suit my mood for expression.”

Fine artist and author Laurie Tavino earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drawing from Arizona State University where she concentrated her studies in Art History, Figurative Drawing and Old Master Drawing Techniques.

In addition to her artwork she received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts with which she produced two historical documentaries. “Suffield – Vanishing Landscapes” 2002 and “Tales From the East Side” 2007. The latter project was enhanced and spun off into a book entitled Suffield’s Old Bridge Neighborhood published by Arcadia’s Images of America Series, 2009.

Her studio is in East Suffield, situated on the family farmstead on River Blvd., adjacent to the Connecticut River.