THE SPRING SHORELINE PAINTINGS ARE BASED ON TANYA MARKVART’S PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTHWEST GEORGIAN BAY (NIAGARA ESCARPMENT, ONTARIO, CANADA) SHORE DURING THE SPRING SNOWMELT. THE PAINTINGS INFUSE MEANING INTO ARRANGEMENTS OF BEDROCK THAT COMPRISE THE LANDSCAPE. ORGANIC CONFIGURATIONS OF DOLOSTONE AND LIMESTONE ARE IMBUED WITH PURPOSE, EMOTION, STATES OF BEING, AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMES. ADOPTING A BIRD’S EYE PERSPECTIVE, THE SERIES CONVEYS A SENSE OF OMNISCIENCE AND OFFERS THE VIEWER SPACE FOR SELF-REFLEXIVITY. FOR THE CREATOR AND THE VIEWER ALIKE, THE PAINTINGS MIRROR HUMAN EXPERIENCE AND BEG THE QUESTION, “WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THE SHORELINE?"
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Tanya Markvart resides in the north Saugeen (Bruce) Peninsula area of Ontario, Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in film production from Concordia University and a Master of Environmental Studies and Doctorate in Planning from the University of Waterloo. Her career began in the film industry in Montreal and Toronto, where she spent ten years working on various Canadian and international TV shows and feature films. Later, her career transitioned to the environmental sector, where over the past 15 years her work has focused on community outreach, wildlife conservation, and communications planning. She is currently employed by Parks Canada while she pursues her career path as a self-taught painter in the early stages of showing her work.
Markvart’s Spring Shoreline paintings draw from the aesthetics of the Dutch masters of still life to explore the connection between our internal (psychological) and external (physical) environments and illuminate how one shapes our experience of the other. Her recent paintings express that there is no such thing as perfection, everything is flawed. Generally, 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 her pieces are completed with acrylic ink on lightly treated wood panel to play with the natural grain, which emerges through the medium in surprising ways.
