Tania (b.1967) graduated from West Surrey College of Art and Design in 1989 with a BA Fine Art Printmaking. In 1991 she graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Fine Art.
She specialises in semi abstract landscapes of Sussex and the beautiful South Downs countryside.
Tania’s works in oil painting, etching and drawing and is concerned with the push/pull of representation and abstraction. Her use of different mediums feed her creative process as she works.
I’m fascinated with the way in which generations of human activity has shaped the landscape of the countryside of both East and West Sussex and am drawn to what is left behind through the consequence of human presence.
It is in this ‘humanised countryside’ that my work captures through the various patterns and repetitions of tracks and paths, the kind that cut through a field or hill.
I am drawn to the detritus abandoned by human enterprise; disused paths, broken fences, desire lines that slowly formed over time, animal grazing or movement of people through the landscape.
The imagery is a mixture of memory/remembrance, drawn or photographed features, to a source material of something more tangible and real, e.g. pattern or marks left behind from a deliberate application on to the surface of the paint.
It is the constant flux of weather and human presence that have shaped/formed these landscapes, that continually inspires me.
Tania has worked from her studio in Brighton for over twenty-five years and has exhibited extensively both in the UK and internationally.
Her work is held in private collections in the UK, Europe, USA and Asia.
She has also completed many commissions for both commercial projects and private collections.
