Tanya

Latvian painter Tanya portrays dreamlike pictures in incredibly sensitive and detailed oil compositions. Though academically trained and currently a professor of painting and drawing, her canvases evade any categorization as academic art. Some of her creations draw on historic styles, while others are more purely surreal. No matter the realism of the scene depicted, her primary subject remains the harmonious co-existence of humans and nature. Her figures often appear on horseback, or alongside dogs and other less domesticated animals. The wondrous environments they inhabit feature subtle shifts in scale and texture, as indoors and outdoors and landforms near and far seem to bleed together.

These subdued yet powerful transformations take on an especially visionary quality due to Tanya’s inexhaustibly inventive exploration of hues. Her compositions feature vast ranges of color, but many are rooted in a subtle yet evocative manipulation of innumerable varieties of white: from mother of pearl and ivory to eggshell, cream and ochre. Gripping images emerge from these finely tuned nature dreamscapes.