The Spring Shoreline: Tanya Markvart
Tanya's paintings explore the connection between our inner emotions and external surroundings, using dreamlike imagery, cultural symbols, and nature to highlight their influence on one another.
Overview
The public is invited to the opening reception on Sunday, June 1st from 2:00 to 4:00 PM to meet the artist and experience her work firsthand. Remarks will be delivered at 2:30 pm. This event is generously supported by Château des Charmes, providing an assortment of fine wines.
Artist's Statement
Tanya Markvart resides in the north Saugeen (Bruce) Peninsula area of Ontario. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in film production from Concordia University and a Master of Environmental Studies and Doctorate in Urban Planning from the University of Waterloo. Her career began in the film industry in Montreal and Toronto, then transitioned to the environmental sector. She is an emerging, self-taught artist in the early stages of showing her work.
Markvart's recent paintings explore the connection between our internal (psychological, emotional) and external (physical) environments to illuminate how one shapes our experience of the other. Her work draws from dreams and the subconscious, incorporates symbols from nature and various cultures, and gives ordinary objects from everyday life supernatural abilities. Her understanding of today's environmental concerns and her love for ecosystems inform her wildlife paintings, which celebrate the beauty and strength of the plants and animals for whom the north Saugeen (Bruce) Peninsula is home. Many of Markvart's paintings are completed with acrylic ink on lightly treated wood panel in order to play with the natural grain, which emerges through the medium in surprising ways.