Location: Australia
Tania has been drawing since she was a little girl...always dragging around a bag of coloured pencils and paper wherever she went...today she creates mixed media drawings celebrating Australian flora as her contribution to the creative conservation of flora.
Completing a Diploma In Education Art and then now a Bachelor of Art majoring in fine Art and History of Art at UWA, she has honed her art purpose and techniques.
Exhibiting artwork that features printmaking, developing installations and perfecting painting. Tania returns her focus to works on paper that enable her to capture the vibrancy and colour of the natural Australian flora.
Tania loves immersing herself in the diverse Australian landscape as seen vis her Residency as part of the Red Earth Art Festival and Residency at Rivendell Winery Estate where her art is currently exhibited.
Her drawings are large and very detailed ... sometimes taking months to complete ... they are all hand drawn with a fountain pen to get the blackest black ink. The drama of black and white is her favourite starting point… focusing on texture and pattern...they are mostly black ink on white with the introduction of bursts of bright color that celebrate the flora.
You can see her work in progress videos as posted on Instagram missdaymonddesigns.
Her themes are based around foliage and floral design... the textures and patterns in nature are always endlessly inspiring. While we can’t save all the flora on the planet why not take a piece of nature as art to showcase in your home.
Tania is endlessly inspired by the natural australian bush and flowers that are her everyday surrounding... her goal is capture the vitality and movement of that flora to the page...always starting each piece with her favourite medium black ink.
The red gerbera while not a native flower has such a vibrant personality that it needed to be captured on paper. The colours are so bright it is almost not natural and yet the red is so celebratory. Nature is always full of surprises.
Aches watercolour paper and mixed media.
The purple Iris is part of a series of artworks that celebrate the vibrancy and colours found in nature. The series focused on this colours that are so bright they almost seem unnatural. While the Iris comes in many colours this purple is quite breathtaking.
Arches Watercolor paper and mixed media.
The Grevillea Flower is endemic to Australia with 240 of the 380 species found only in Western Australia. I love the aesthetic architecture of this amazing sculptural flower with its spirals and curls. It comes in many colours of reds, yellows and pinks. I have focused on the pink variety as I try to capture the movement and colour unique to the Australian bush.
Inspired by these vibrant red flowers growing in the wild Australian bush. I wanted to celebrate their survival in the harsh dry Australian climate by capturing the weave and movement of the bush supporting these flowers nestled amongst the foliage.
“Hakea Pincushion Flower in Sunlight”
The Hakea Pincushion flower is one of the most amazing architectural flowers with its ball shape supporting the hundreds of pink spikes extending out all around it. It is endemic to Australia and looks otherworldly when seen on the bush en masse. This piece features the soft pink species basking in the afternoon sun.
“Hakea pincushion Flower at Twilight”
This artwork features the unique Hakea Pincushion flower. It is endemic to Australia and quite unique with its spherical ball shape covered in hundreds of spikes. This work captures them as the sun is setting and the are basking in twilight where shadows are accentuated with dramatic colours.
These inspirational flowers explode from a pod the size of your hand. The leathery silver pod pops its top and the bright red fronds uncurl to explode from the pod like fireworks. Unique to Western Australia only these flowers live up to their name macro meaning large and carpa meaning eucalyptus.
The grevillea flower is striking with its spirals and curls spinning out from the central stem. This artwork captures the movement of the flower nestled in its complex foliage. The colours become more dramatic as the bright Australian sun sets and silhouettes its shape.
The Australian Hibiscus is so unique in many ways. It starts as a yellow pointed bud and as it unravels it loses the yellow to slowly become a pink full bloom. The pink colour change begins with pink veins emerging from the yellow flower as seen in this piece. They nestle in rich green foliage which contrasts superbly with the bright colours.
The seed pods of the Brachychiton tree are unique to Australia and form a star cluster of canoe shaped pods. These tough leathery pods house yellow pea shaped seeds. As the pods split open in the Australian heat they expel the seeds. This artwork captures the protective pod in its star shape nestled amongst its unique foliage.
“Pilbara Seed pods in Sunlight”
These pods hang like decorations in the trees. They curl and swirl in the Australian heat. They form beautiful shapes as they weave in between the branches up high. This artwork captures the movement in the blast of the afternoon sun.
“Pilbara Seed Pods at Twilight. ”
The Pilbara is a dry hot landscape in the north of Western Australia where only the hardy survive. These seed pods hang from the trees basking in cooler light while the sun goes down on this hot and dry landscape. As the light fades the colours and shapes shift becoming more dramatic before the night darkness arrives.
“Red Gerbera”
“Purple Iris”
“Pink Grevillea”
“Red Rose Tattoo”
“Eucalyptus Macrocarpa”
“Grevillea at Twilight”
“Australian Hibiscus”
“Brachychiton Seed Pods”
