Artist in front of painting: River Night, oil on canvas, 3’x9’
Tinna Savini
tinnasavini@gmail.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
Tinna Savini uses an abstract vernacular to make images that are a response and reconciliation of interior and exterior experiences, especially those informed by the natural world like being in wilderness areas, virgin forests or the high Sierra. Her works depict a kind of naturalism in the use of light and tonality despite being made without an immediately identifiable subject. At times, the forms she uses verge on not being there at all and at other they transform or are emphatic statements of strong color or an abrupt edge mirroring the feeling of something dramatic, curious or strange. She relies on the horizontal or vertical format orientations to indicate if the subject is a landscape or figuration, each containing part of the other, with the exact proportion settled by the shapes, lines and forms that appear in the image. The individual works often begin as a single image that are then either divided and reconnected or are adjoined to other panels. This creates a single image comprised of multiple constituents which interact to inform a unified, but more diverse whole. Seen metaphorically, this creative process is a reenactment of what is happening all the time within the ecology of ourselves and the cosmos.