5" x 5" x 2.0125"

Silverpoint

Diane Savino holds an MFA from Vermont College of Norwich University and an M.A. Ed in painting from the Hartford Art School. She is a former art professor at Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA. She is also an independent curator who has orchestrated several egg tempera exhibits at both public and collegiate art museums and galleries. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the US, Europe and Canada, and is found in private and public collections. She is currently represented by Vermont Artisan Gallery, Brattleboro, VT.

The piece,“Caress” is from a series investigating relationships between nature and human nature. The drawing is executed in silverpoint, which is basically a piece of silver embedded in a stylus. The Renaissance artists once utilized silverpoint with perfection. Silverpoint is achieved by using a metalpoint