Flight of the Zebra
Acrylic on Canvas,
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Flight of the Zebra
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Details
Acrylic on Canvas
Washed background with white strips creating form
W: 900mm x H: 800mm x D: 30mm
W: 35" x H: 31" x D: 1"
Approx. Weight: 2kg
This work is
unframed
Price
US$ 455
Scale
Reference
Zebra2010
About "Flight of the Zebra"
My usual paintings are usually very vibrant and colourful.
I wanted to expore the use of black and white to create form. I used looser brush strokes than my normal 000brush. The feeling of freedom. The flight of the zebra with its abstract white and black strips against a neutral toned background creates a dramatic effect without having to be too detailed. From sleeping to awakening the zebra runs off into the distance. I love the feeling of movement which in itself I find therapeutical. It is a break from my very colourful and detailed art.
Tanya had an exhibition in Franschoek at the Art de Vivre Gallery and the gallery owner, Marina Todd, had this to say about Tanya's paintings:
'Her unique style flows out of traditional African folklore themes. Joyful, exuberant and dreamlike, the detailed images that fill her landscapes and portraits bring to mind the fuitful, abundant land in the midst of change that is the inspiring, modern renaissance of South Africa.'
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About Tanya
Tanya was born (18/12/1964) and grew up in Cape Town. She attended Wynberg Girls' High School where art was her favourite subject. Noticing her incredible talent, she was encouraged by her art teachers to pursue the arts after she matriculated. She studied at and obtained a BA in Fine Arts/ Graphics from the University of Stellenbosch in 1987. Her art lecturers, Niki Daly, Paddy Bouma, Paul Emsley, Larry Scully, Hardy Botha and Cecil Skotnes had a huge influence on her art and encouraged her to explore her imagination with the use of different mediums and techniques, e.g. woodcut, lithography, silkscreen, etching, mixed media, pencil, scraperboard and oil paint.
Tanya specialises in gouache (a water-based paint) and acrylic. Her work has been sold to both South African and overseas art buyers.
She has done illustration work for Cosmopolitan and Fair Lady magazines amongst others. She worked for Leisure Hour, producing book catalogues in the 1980s, doing layout work, illustrations as well as photography.
Tanya, her husband and three children, lived in Montagu in the Klein Karoo from 1990 to 1996. This is where she started her personalised paintings after being commissioned by Sylvia Krige, wife of South African artist Francois Krige, to do a painting for her nephew, a film producer, living in New York, USA.
During her time in Montagu Tanya became close friends with Inger Welz, the wife of South African artist Jean Welz. Inger had a huge impact on Tanya's life and encouraged her to paint as much as possible.
Marlow Walters of the 'Tuscany Gallery' in Montagu, exhibited and sold Tanya's paintings while she was living there.
Tanya had an exhibition in Franschoek at the 'Art de Vivre Gallery' and the owner, Marina Todd, had this to say about Tanya's paintings:
'Her unique style flows out of traditional African folklore themes. Joyful, exuberant and dreamlike, the detailed images that fill her landscapes and portraits bring to mind the fruitful, abundant land in the midst of change that is the inspiring, modern renaissance of South Africa.'
She also exhibited and sold her paintings at 'The Lipschitz Gallery' in Plettenberg Bay, George Stegmann's 'Bay Fine Art Gallery' in St. Francis Bay, Eastern Cape and 'Rossouw Modern Art Galleries' in Hermanus and Groot Constantia.
Tanya exhibited seven of her painting at a South African Art Exhibition held at 'The Studio' in Kings Road, Chelsea, London. All seven sold. Six were bought and brought back to South Africa where they are still exhibited at the Twelve Apostles Hotel, Camps Bay, Cape Town, South Africa.
Tanya has done several commissioned paintings for a local interior designer as well as commissions for a private family to showcase the unveiling of their new home in Australia.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
My creations are spontaneous and incorporate elements of nature, animals and humans in a tranquil setting. I make use of bold images and symbols that offer interpretation rather than a reflection of the natural environment. I like to juxtapose the unexpected which appears normal to the viewer. My paintings are filled with meticulous detail which pulls the viewer into a peaceful world. My art stems from deep love of texture, colour and patterns and the use of a 000 brush to clothe the animals in their fur and the figures in their layers of patterned, colourful clothes.
Although I have explored different mediums and techniques, I am currently enjoying painting with acrylic on canvas.
Art is my passion. I am inspired by people and nature with its diversity. A painting is successful if it can bring my viewer hope and joy in a world of turmoil.
One of my paintings featured in Fragile.
FRAGILE is a fusion of poetry and art, a collaboration between award-winning poet Athol Williams and 65 South African artists. The book presents a series of paintings, one by each artist, and a short reflective poem inspired by each painting. These short poems are strung together to yield one long poem infused with the shapes, textures, colours and artistic imagination of the paintings.
The poem reflects the paintings, and together, the poem and the art, present a reflection of our world - its magnificence and its fragility. The poet and the artists offer us hope - we hear them say that our world may be fragile, but it is not broken and that by holding hands across all that divides us, we can draw our world together, to create a hopeful future.
The artists form part of the Worth Knowing About art project.
My Instagram handle is: tanyadurrboshoffartsa
Price Range
US$ 455-2,275
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Exhibitions
Marlow Walters Gallery in Montagu
Art de Vivre Gallery Franschoek
Lipshutz Gallery in Knysna
'The Studio' in Kings Road, Chelsea, London for 2 days
Steggman Gallery in Cape St Francis
Rossouw Modern Art Galleries in Hermanus and Groot Constantia
Education
BA Fine Arts Graphics, University of Stellenbosch
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