TYICE NATASHA
C anadian artist Tyice Natasha promotes her paintings as pure expression grounded in a “need from [her] soul to paint”. Her paintings are complex miasmas of form and layer adding non-traditional text elements that speak to the viewer on a myriad of levels. Her work is heavily influenced by the abstract expressionist movement, paying homage to action painting and cultural references associated with time spent in Japan and South Korea. Tyice’s paintings are colorful and teeming with
have to have music, loudly, especially Miles Davis”. Her paintings are not overly meditated, as she takes a more ethereal approach to her practice, allowing for spontaneity and subconscious impulses to guide her brush. The resulting images are free from external influences, and are true primitive depictions of herself and her inner psyche. Her paintings revel in the traditions of famous action painters such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning,
“Tyice Natasha is a visual lyricist, her paintings are her
poetry”
and Franz Kline. Tyice allows the music to infiltrate her being granting her the ability to create work that not only heralds her inner psyche but also emphasizes the physical act of painting and the end result as a locus of importance.
life. her paintings lend themselves to the process by which they were created, offering the viewer the freedom to draw conclusions based upon their own individual experiences.
“She provides the viewer with the unique opportunity to experience the painting on several levels: as purely a visual experience as well as one rooted in semantics.”
Tyice readily admits to being inspired by the rhythms of music while she paints; “some people paint in complete silence, but I