Linda Amoruso
(916) 765-9549
Artist Bio:
“This is how you clean your brush”, said my grandfather. He lathered a little Ivory bar soap in the palm of his hand, snaked the sable through the suds and smiled at me. I was five or six years old, just tall enough to look into the kitchen sink. He was my first art teacher. He painted landscapes, seascapes in oil on canvas, and in watercolor from his photography. To this day, turpentine is its own perfume rife with fond memories.
Art has been a part of life and is among my earliest memories. Travel also took me to the Prado, Capitoline, Louvre, Tate, Metropolitan. I studied the masters, delighted in their creativity, thought process and application. And, I continued formal class work at local colleges, including Cabrillo College.
I love nature. It is my inspiration and joy. I attempt to replicate its beauty, amazing structure, color, and display. I especially love botanical studies, using my original photography as the starting point. I work in many media, including gouache, watercolor, acrylic, pen and ink, scratchboard, and graphite. When I work in digital media, I strive for a hand-to-paper feel, with a painterly style.
Recently, I graduated from the Master Program in Science illustration, California State University Monterey Bay. During the final quarter, I interned at Stanford Medicine, and completed conceptual illustrations on long COVID, kidney transplantation, and unconventional paths researcher Benedikt Geier on the Stanford INSIGHTS webpage.
