TOP PHOTO: Local artist Cindy Marrazzo’s Marrazzo Fine Art Studio is featured today on WLAF.

By Charlotte Underwood

JACKSBORO, TN (WLAF) – Marrazzo Fine Art Studio is WLAF’s business of the week. Located in Jacksboro and owned by local artist Cindy Marrazzo, the studio opened in Campbell County about a year ago. Marrazzo’s art can also be found featured at local business, Lindsay’s Carpet and Paint Center in LaFollette.

Originally from Chicago, Marrazzo’s journey into the art world is an interesting one that began when she was a child, but would go on hold for 36 years. 

Cindy Marrazzo can be reached via email at cindymarrazzo@gmail.com.

Marrazzo said she had always dreamed of being an artist and attending the Art Institute of Chicago, but her parents had other plans and insisted she follow a “more practical path.” That was at age 16. The young Marrazzo “stubbornly” decided then that she would never paint again and after graduating high school, she joined the United States Marine Corps. She also completed several degrees in engineering and during her 36-year career, worked for NASA, and other government and military organizations. 

“Painting was always my love,” Cindy Marrazzo said.  She had her art on display in Chicago and found her passion once again. 

According to Marrazzo, she lost her engineering job in Illinois in the “market crash” in 2008. Unable to find a job, one of Marrazzo’s friends suggested she follow her love of art and after a 36 year hiatus, Marrazzo began painting again. She recalled the first thing she painted was a castle from a visit to Germany. 

Marrazzo Fine Art Studio is WLAF’s business of the week.

She and her husband retired from Illinois to Campbell County two years ago and she said she feels like she is “home.”

“Escaping from Illinois was the best thing we did. We love it here. I love being down here in this small town; I’m a country girl at heart,” Marrazzo said. 

About a year ago, when Marrazzo was having flooring put down in her studio to open her home business, Scott Lindsay was putting the floor in and he loved her work, which is how it came to be displayed in his business in downtown LaFollette. 

Local artist Cindy Marrazzo has art work on display at Lindsay’s Carpet and Paint Center.

Marrazzo describes her art style as Traditional Realist and she does beautiful landscaping and architectural pieces, among others including paintings of her beloved Irish Wolfhounds.

For more information about Marrazzo Fine Art Studio visit Marrazzoart.com, or contact her at cindymarrazzo@gmail.com. You can also check her work out on Facebook at Marrazzo Fine Art Studios.  (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED – 11/05/2021-6AM)

6 Replies to “Marrazzo Fine Art Studio is WLAF’s feature business”

  1. Wow! So glad we have her here in our county. Her paintings are very impressive. Welcome home Cindy!

  2. Cindy’s work doesn’t look like something that was painted, it looks more like a photo. Her painting of the trees in the water with sunrise/sunset is more like looking out a window. Beautiful work from a very talented lady.

    1. Thanks Deb! I always say, that I’d like the viewer to feel like they are there with me, actually walking up the steps, admiring the architecture and craftsmanship, touching the flowers and enjoying the moment. When I first started back painting, they tried to make me an impressionist that leaves out the details, I quickly realized that wasn’t going to be me. So Traditional realism it is!

  3. Thank you Karla! We wish we would have come home decades ago. I get to view the Cumberlands all day long and my neighbors are fantastic!

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