Fancy Paints

Tasha was accepted to art school at the early age of 8 when she passed the stringent turtle-drawing admission test, but her parents kept her back as not to tarnish her childhood with the strain of prodigy. Ten years later, when the age-appropriate time came, Tasha attended Cornell University, where she studied a range of art media, concept and history. She decided on her studio concentration after a professor noted it would be a shame were she not to become a painter. Her college career was highlighted by a semester in Rome, where she executed her first mural in the basement of the Palazzo Massimo. Upon completion of an installation of paintings re-creating the textures of Maine's coast, she graduated with a fine arts degree in 1998. From Ithaca, NY Tasha flew half way around the world to a small college in main land China to teach English and American culture for a year. Justifying her studies at Cornell, she started a drawing studio with the otherwise business oriented students.