The CSGA Links Volume 5 Issue 2 June 2017 | Page 20

FEATURE Connecticut Native, David Lussier is Off icial US Open Artist F rom the time he could first pick up and hold a pencil, Windham, Connecticut native David Lussier was drawing on any surface that could display his images. From childhood through high school his creative instincts led him to a four-year program at Paier College of Art in Hamden, as well as study at Lyme Art Academy in Old Lyme. Now a nationally recognized landscape painter with a studio in Willington, Mr. Lussier’s work has garnered more than 75 awards and is in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the United States. His technique is characterized by a masterful use of color harmonies and poetic brushwork that bring his paintings to life.