Tracie Griffith Tso painted her first bamboo brushstrokes at age 12 at a brushpainter’s studio in Southern California. She learned to throw pots at age 12 at a neighborhood art center, a skill which, when combined with painting, produces functional clay art. She specializes in Chinese spontaneous flower-bird painting and maintains a working studio at the Torpedo Factory Art Center as a dual-media artist in Alexandria, Va. on paper and creating functional high-fire brushpainted pottery. The award-winning artist developed her style with a teacher schooled by a Hong Kong master. She paints without sketching, trained on unforgiving rice paper with ink, so no two pieces are alike. She specializes in expressive animals reflecting emotion and movement in body language though an eloquent, deliberate brush. She spends deeply satisfying days in her studio with her muse and workshop rabbit, Willow.