Artist Profile: Tanya Wales
Tanya Wales is an Australian abstract artist, based in the Barossa Valley, South Australia. The scale and tranquillity of Tanya’s works form the basis of her biography and invite the audience to pause, to breathe and to feel.
Following a professional education in Design Arts and Graphic Design, Tanya began to develop her creative thinking in more abstract forms of expression. This included a period of training at the National Art School and private tutoring with the acclaimed Sydney artist, Marissa Purcell.
Tanya engages with a considered combination of elements across a concurrent series of works, building a complex narrative within each piece that references a point in time and a playful celebration of painting itself. She employs a variety of techniques including pouring, transparent layers, fine brush work and painterly marks to create an otherworldly narrative balanced by a sense of ambiguity and the illusion of simplicity. The multi-layered tension between colour and form provide the energy in each piece.
Once completed, each work conveys the artist’s fascination with the fluid inevitability of life’s journey and with the paradox of knowing that despite all that has gone before all we ever really have is one perfect moment: the present.