The Table of Good Times

The world can be harsh at times. This painting is an antithesis to that - a little gathering of things that bring joy - a glass of red (ok a bottle!), gorgeous roses, fresh fruit. These things make me smile. I painted this in my backyard in Sydney. It was a pleasure to paint.

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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…