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Tjasa Owen
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Tjasa (pronounced Tee-asha) Owen's work is a confluence of her international travels, her enthusiasm for written correspondence, and her love for landscapes, inland as well as coastal. Having grown up by the Atlantic seashore, she is drawn to its ever-changing skies and dunes. During her foreign travels and time away from the studio, she photographs, sketches, and captures landscape details and textures to use as inspiration for her paintings.
Rather than representing a specific place, Tjasa is interested in creating views that feel shared and remembered, as though torn from the pages of a scrapbook. She sometimes writes postscripts and incomplete phrases from her journals or sketchbooks on the canvas, to imbue these new places with a sense of time and history. She likens her process to conjuring a landscape postcard in her head, reproducing it on canvas, and, by adding an ink stamp, sending it back into the world. By making paintings that feel like correspondence, Tjasa invites viewers to invent their own stories about the places she creates in her work.
Tjasa Owen has studied fine arts, art history, and interior architecture on both American coasts and abroad. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia, and has studied at the National Academy of Art in New York, the Academy of Art in San Francisco, and Coupa in Paris. Her work has been shown extensively in the US and internationally. Tjasa works in San Francisco and lives in Marin County with her husband and two children.
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