Allyn Latorre works primarily in oil paint from life.
His subjects vary widely including landscape, still life, and portrait. His work is underpinned by strong compositional design, mastery of tone, value, temperature, and brushwork. Those elements cavort together in his work to create depth and bold presence.
Allyn attended Massachusetts College of Art where he studied advanced painting and drawing techniques. He is comfortable with a wide range painting styles and may work in plein air in the field, wet-on-wet sessions, or in his studio borrowing from a Dutch Masters approach of process and layering coats of fat-over-lean pigment.
Allyn deeply enjoys the overall process of art and creativity and often develops playful drawings and mixed media pieces from imagination that push on concept and image structure. Allyn is as comfortable illustrating beautiful unicorns with flowing rainbow manes for his daughters as he is making bold landscapes with burnt umber undertones in his studio.
Allyn grew up in Massachusetts and lived in Oregon for many years. He now resides in a rural coastal community in North Carolina where he paints from his studio.