Tina Guide

"And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy" -Gibran

My work as an artist takes me always in new directions. It ranges from realistic to stylized to abstract. Life tells me what to make - people and feelings, colors and images provide the starting points. Sometimes the materials dictate what piece will be made and where it will go. This is especially true when I am working on sculpture.

Paintings from my abstract series reflect what might be likened to brain synapses. They are illustrated moments of connection, physically expressed in calligraphic fashion and filled with color as intense as each individual synapse experience. I refer to them as my garden of images according to a dream I had - I saw them all floating above a fenced-in rectangular space in the middle of an arid landscape.

I love to draw people and am strongly influenced by the masters in technique and vision. I find individual essences and personalities intriguing and enjoy expressing my interpretation of these in my art.

My stylized images fall in the middle spectrum between realism and abstract, balancing the extremes. I find a lot of pleasure in these as they dictate less to me about internal matters. They happen spontaneously when I play with my medium and exercise my skills in drawing and as colorist.