Acrylic on Canvas

Having painted professionally for 20 years, Tanya has drawn the figure all her life. Beginning with comic books and ebony magazines; her interest in portrait is present in much of her work.. Painter Juliette Aristides remarked the warm sensibility experience when viewing her portraits. Influenced my 19th Century Masters; she focuses her painting style on classical realism. Having a respect for cultural traditions of story telling, her paintings are thinly painted describing the temporal nature of life. Drawing the brightly colored layouts of Ebony magazines as a child, lends itself to the graphic and compositionally conscious look of many pieces.