Tava Studios was founded by Janet Brignola-Tava. Janet began her illustrious art career after having graduated with a degree in painting from the School of Visual Arts and after some further study at the Parsons School of Design and at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her first professional position was with Karl Mann Studio where she ran the Orientalia painting department for 12 years. Here, creating works for such clients as the Roscoe Award-winning Executive Suites in the Plaza Hotel and the Saudi Arabian and South African Embassies. During the time that she was working with Karl Mann, she adapted ancient Chinese designs for modern use in award-winning and innovative hand-painted textiles, wallpapers, and murals. She also learned and perfected decorative painting techniques. Janet works in oils and acrylic producing paintings for galleries and museums.
Her work has been featured in such publications as Metropolitan Homes, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Garden and Vogue and House. Private collectors of her work include Robert Redford, Jane Seymour and the late jazz great Dizzie Gillespie. She was the subject of a feature in the Philadelphia Inquirer’s arts section focusing on her decorative painting and murals for the restoration of the historic Martin Coryell House in Lambertville, New Jersey. With several years of experience working as a decorative paint consultant to leading paint manufacturer Benjamin Moore, she now collaborates with the company on trade-related articles. Janet shares her career and life with her husband Eugene Tava who is also an artist. Janet and her husband together opened TAVA STUDIOS in 1987.
