Joanne Tarlin is a creative, empathetic and spiritual artist. She transforms the metaphysical into colorful expressionistic and abstract oil paintings.

Joanne began painting as a child in a loving home in Framingham, Massachusetts. In high school, she painted sets, created costumes for school plays and painted in art classes. She also volunteered for the Special Olympics to assist a classmate, Cathy, wheelchair bound by cerebral palsy. Upon graduation, one of the gifts she received was the book The Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda which introduced her to a new way of looking at life. All of these experiences significantly influenced the artist-in-the-making.

After a successful career in graphic communications as a creative director for her own and others’ marketing companies across the United States, Joanne left the corporate world to create meaningful and high quality art.

For a decade now, she has been painting and attributes her success to: her training at The Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, a division of The New School for Social Research, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree; her experiences with people who daily face tough social and or medical challenges; as well as her inquisitiveness about life, guided by Judaic values and ongoing studies in philosophy and religion.