About the artist
A painting begins with a field of light.
Within the movement of abstraction, TINA keeps forms that can still be felt: water, drifting fish, soft mist and light. Rather than closing a painting with an answer, she leaves room for each viewer to find a place of their own.
Practice
Observe slowly. Keep the accidental.
A work often begins with a colour, a reflection or a movement across water. Layered marks do not try to describe the subject completely; they leave breath between clarity and blur, allowing the image to keep changing over time.
Original works are released from the studio in small groups. Each carries its own relationship of colour and rhythm, ready to enter a lived space and become something newly noticed in everyday life.
The artist and the work
Staying awhile with the painting.
Pale blue and violet gold share a room, each setting a different rhythm of looking.
“A painting can feel like a body of water—and like the light we are moving through.”
— TINA
Before the first brushstroke
Before the colour lands, let the light enter.
A length of linen, a little colour and a moment in which time can slow.
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