Tina's most recent “cycling artist” project of painting the entire UK coast began in 2005. In a series of ongoing cycle journeys she does sketches, watercolour studies and takes photographs to bring back to her Greenwich studio. There she creates the larger acrylic paintings on canvas capturing the changing colours of the sea and sky, the light and weather of each beach or cliff.
"My work has been described as colourist, colour field, and tonalist. I just describe them as seascapes or landscapes, simplified and soft. They are very specific places and times, representational. They are also about the simplicity of the horizon and the interaction of horizontals between shore, horizon and the edges of the canvas. They exist to capture moments, impressions, a more real experienced memory than the overly detailed one we might create in our minds."
Originally from Chicago, Tina immigrated to the UK fourteen years ago. After moving to London from Scotland she studied oil painting and printmaking privately with artist Annette Johnson in Greenwich. She is a fulltime artist working from her studio in Greenwich. Her paintings are in private collections in the US, UK, Australia and Japan and she is represented or exhibited regularly by galleries in London and the southeast.
Past exhibitions have included:
Kaupthing Singer and Friedlander / Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition
Stark Gallery, London and Canterbury
Blackheath Gallery
Will's Art Warehouse
Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Galleries
Pastel Society, Mall Galleries
Queen's House, National Maritime Museum (2 time award winner)
Friend's Summer Exhibition, Dulwich Picture Gallery
Pierre Garroudi Gallery, London Bridge
Francis Iles, Rochester
London City Airport (2nd place winner)
Finalist in 3-man show, Lauderdale House, for London Pride Week
