Tiarna Herczeg

Says Tiarna Herczeg of this work, "This painting can be perceived in many ways. One way I see it is the two forms as myself. The deep olive green as my emotional sense and the blue as the spiritual. Pushing up against me and helping me grow. I titled it 'Not Without Help' because I am guided, not in a creative sense, but in life by my ancestors. I do not move through a difficult time without calling upon them to help me, or without them showing up. In every sense and circumstance they are there."

"The unknown within my work exists in the things I cannot fully explain. There are experiences that resist language. Dreams, feelings, encounters, and moments of recognition that remain difficult to communicate to others. Painting allows me to sit with those experiences without needing to resolve them.

"My paintings are not figurative, abstract, or portraiture in any fixed sense. They operate somewhere between these categories. They are not illustrations of memories or beliefs – they are evidence. Proof to myself that what I experience emotionally, spiritually, and intuitively is real, tangible, and alive."