Tiarna Herczeg

Says Tiarna Herczeg of this work, "This is the tide when it is drawing in before the sun comes up. It comes right up to the steps at the beach near my house every day. I am like the tide too, drawing myself up to places I may only touch once a day.

"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."