Love in the Time of Cholera

A little grouping of some favourite things, a seed pod, a buddah hand, a penguin book, & red flowers in a blue bottle. I painted a series of 4 small (12" by 12") square still life's of treasured objects on a circular disk and it brought me deep pleasure during uncertain times. It is finished with a high gloss archival varnish, which will preserve the richness of the colours for centuries to come.
You can view a time lapse painting of this on my instagram: @tanyalakeart

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Tanya Lake is a multi award winning photographer turned painter, based in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, with her first exhibition in 2019.

With a practice that includes weekly landscape Plein Air sessions, along with live model sketching, she is passionate about storytelling through art & creative expression with the Australian landscape and the natural world being a continual joy & inspiration. She finds this in oceanic landscapes, still life’s, interiors and dreamscapes; images that include surrealist elements – a tiny body in an enormous ocean, the wings of enormous birds, green mangoes, lush tropical plants, and the nocturnal world – moons, stars, the headlights of a Citroen Goddess car making its way through the desert…