Tahnee Lonsdale’s art is concerned with perception, but it is process of painting what she thinks, not what she sees. Tanhee says “what I paint is a reflection of me and an expression of how I view the world.”
In a landscape perceived through a lens of loneliness and melancholy, expectations are of sombre and muted works. Though these emotions are looming, the paintings themselves are vivid, dynamic in their fragmented patchworks, a world of colour within the parameters of the canvas, punctuated by ghostly text.
Tahnee identifies the primal instinct in her art as colour, which is shaped with stories, both within the world of an individual painting and through the threads which link one painting to the next. The narrative commences with a vague notion, which accumulates, becoming a driving force articulated in all of the paintings.
This force has been continued throughout a drastic period of change in Tahnee’s work, with her paintings becoming increasingly abstract in the past 18 months. Throughout this period of development, text marks her works, and the paintings continue to tell stories. The words which appear, palimpsest like, are often incoherent and barely visible, but chart the history of each work, and the evolution of a narrative, etched in charcoal and easily wiped away except for a trace reminder.
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