Tiarna Herczeg

Says Tiarna Herczeg of this work "All parts of me balancing together. The work considers rest as a state of balance between different parts of the self... bodily, emotional, inherited, and environmental. The forms lean into one another, holding tension and stillness simultaneously."

"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."