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, volunteered for the Special Olympics to assist a classmate, Cathy, wheelchair bound by cerebral palsy, get in and out of the swimming pool. Upon graduation, her father who had a great interest in world religions, gave her a copy of The Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda. 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 found the spiritual strength to quit the corporate world and dedicate herself to creating 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 her Jewish education and ongoing studies in philosophy and eastern religions.