May 4 - June 22, 2024 Tisha Balesi Wood “EMPASTO”

Tisha Wood is a neo-impressionist artist whose life journey displays a strong palette knife stroke in oil and acrylic, as well as a delicate brush when painting plein-air with watercolors. Her signature work, graceful shapes and sultry colors, captures the sensitivity of an encounter with a person or place to bring you into that moment on canvas. Born in Nice, France her childhood was nurtured with the love for the vistas of her family’s origin “the isle of beauty” Corsica. Her father, the writer Dr. Charles Balesi, was often assigned to Chicago, Il, where Wood was able to enjoy all the benefits of an addiction to the Chicago Art Institute at a young age. In her early years as a painter, Tisha received her formal art training through the Beaux Arts and as a protégé of the highly acclaimed Vermont artist Lillian Kennedy. Today Tisha Wood is part of the international Franco-American artist scene, delivering exquisite exhibits in both countries.