Tegan Colliver

My art reflects the places I love to go, still life motifs of personal significance, references to the past and people I’ve enjoyed meeting.
Interiors play their part in the realistic interpretation of everyday things, recurring themes, a suggestion of what may occur or what has been, or an aspect of myself.
I relish the challenge and discipline of portraiture, including self-portraits, always painted from life.
Landscape is my outlet of freedom, of golden earth, glazed moonlight, luminous and ethereal mists and cloud.
Attending painting and drawing tutoring from age 10, I honed my skills and completed a fine art degree in 1992, thanks to the late landscape painter and tutor Phil Hunter who saw ‘something special’ in my work and gave this traditionally-trained girl an opportunity to grow and flourish where some other universities had refused. I continue to ponder the ‘two worlds’ of Art Societies versus Contemporary art and their distinctive ways.