It has been acknowledged that the current future of our environment is in peril! The main concept behind the works are to address the fact that many birds and flora species are currently endangered or extinct.
All works are sourced from the natural history illustrative archives from as far back as the 15th century from all parts of the world's national collection library. It is fascinating to look at and bring these observations from a time long ago to remind us of their fragility and the level of extinction.
The title, Surrounded by Time with a Canary in a coal mine, suggests; that we are running out of time and nature is telling us so!
The works are sitting on shelves, a place of memorabilia, sometimes a time and place of the memory of what once was.
The birds and plant life are placed on floating shelves on the surrounding gallery walls, they represent important items on display and symbolize the fragility of their existence, encapsulating time lost and gained.
The intention is to explore the human inclination and tendency to collect and display meaningful items on shelves, emphasizing that these painted birds and flora may one day only exist as objects to be admired.
The collection of painted birds placed on shelves are exactly these items. It feels as though we will be one day placing these beloved creatures on our shelves to be looked at because they might just one day be gone forever!
A Dinner Plate of History. H152 x L102cm. Watercolour, Gouache and Acrylic on canvas.
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Shaped like this. H102 x L84cm. Watercolour, Gouache and Acrylic on canvas.
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Compliance. H102 x L84cm. Watercolour, Gouache and Acrylic on canvas.
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Wrapped Together. H102 x L84cm. Watercolour, Gouache and Acrylic on canvas.
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Going with the flow. H102 x L84cm. Watercolour, Gouache and Acrylic on canvas.
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Sometimes I forget what year it is! H152 x L135cm. Watercolour, Gouache and Acrylic on canvas.
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The concepts behind the artworks are concerned with plants, flora, and vines but mainly orchids. I have been looking at the forms within large and small plants and it has given me ideas to recreate and restructure the way plants grow. Why do we love plants so much besides the health benefits? I think we also love them because they look just look spectacular! If you look at a plant, tree, bush or flower and its gorgeous foliage you can see these wonderful compositions they make without trying!
Hanging Around. Watercolour, Gouache and Acrylic on Board. H37cm x L30cm SOLD
Gripping the tree. Watercolour, Gouache and Acrylic on Board.
H37cm x L30cm SOLD
Wild orchid, Epiphytes.. Watercolour, and gouache on board.
H35 x L30cm. SOLD
Over Here. Watercolour, Gouache and Acrylic on Board.
H37cm x L30cm SOLD
Totem Shadows. Watercolour, Gouache on board.
H 153 x L 133cm *Finalist Gosford Art Prize*
Framed and available, please email for enquiries.
Shorter than the others
Gouache, Watercolour, and Acrylic on Canvas,
H 102cm x 84cm ,
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Standing Proud. Gouache, Watercolour, and Acrylic on Canvas,
H 102cm x 84cm . SOLD
My Green Buddies
H 40.6cm x 30.5cm
Watercolour, gouache and acrylic on board
Available at The DEA Store
Sun Orchid
H 40.6cm x 30.5cm
Watercolour, gouache and acrylic on board
Available at The DEA Store
A Petite Blue Day
H 40.6cm x 30.5cm
Watercolour, gouache and acrylic on board
Available at The DEA Store
Attached in Vines
H 40.6cm x 30.5cm
Watercolour, gouache and acrylic on board
Available at The DEA Store
A Blue Day, Gouache, Watercolour and Acrylic on Canvas, H152cmxL132cm, Available at info@taniamason.com
Room Shot - Ravenwood Finalist - SOLD
A little inverted, Panel 1, Gouache, Watercolour and Acrylic on Canvas, H 102cm x 84cm, SOLD.
Washed away into a little, Panel 2, Gouache, Watercolour, and Acrylic on Canvas, H 102cm x 84cm , SOLD
Room Shot - Tania Mason Studio
A little nook, Gouache, Watercolour, and Acrylic on Canvas, H 140cm x L 120 cm, Kings Art prize Finalist - SOLD
Once upon a time I only worked in Black and White! Working in either charcoal or ink! Now days the works on paper are quite colourful!
In this section of the website I have attached a selected few. From Public Commissions, Solo and Group Exhibitions and personal work. With so many to choose from these are some of my favourites!
Some works on paper are available in Archival Print form.
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Charcoal on paper 116 x 140cm 2009
Commissioned & Acquisition by The Victoria Arts Centre
Charcoal on paper 116 x 140cm 2009
Commissioned & Acquisition by The Victoria Art Centre
Charcoal on paper 116 x 140cm 2009
Commissioned & Acquisition by The Victoria Arts Centre
Charcoal on paper 116 x 140cm 2009
Commissioned & Acquisition by The Victoria Arts Centre
Charcoal on paper 180 x 116cm 2007
Solo Exhibition Australian Galleries
Charcoal on paper 180 x 116cm 2007
Solo Exhibition Australian Galleries
Charcoal on paper 120 x 160cm 2012
Charcoal on paper 140 x 160cm 2012
Ink on Paper 21 x 29cm 2012
Paris Exhibition in response to the stories of Papunya
Ink on paper 56 x 75cm 2013
Exhibition Yellow House & Book Project
Ink on paper 90 x 120cm 2013
Exhibition at Yellow House & Book Project
Over the past couple of years, I have been going back to my black and white elements. Here are an ongoing selected series of black and white vases - vessels - chambers - pots, what ever you would like to call them! They are a lot of fun to create!
Injector, Ink and Ink Pen on paper, H 100cm x W 88cm, SOLD
The Leaners, Ink on paper, H 70cm x W 58cm , SOLD
Poke, Ink and Ink Pen on paper, H 100cm x W 88cm, SOLD
Olympus Remnants, Watercolour and Ink Pen on paper,H 77cm x L 220cm, Available Sale Price $800 (unframed) can be separated.
Vessels that can cuddle, Watercolour and Ink Pen on paper, H77cm x L 110cm, Available SALE Price $300 ( unframed).
The pink and fold, Acrylic, Gouache & Inkpen on paper, H76cm x 58cm, SOLD!
Pink, lovable cuddles, Gouache and Inkpen on paper, H76cm x 58cm, SOLD!
Banner vessel love, Acrylic and gouache on canvas, H103cm x L 85cm, Available, SALE PRICE $200
Wrestling jug, Acrylic and gouache on canvas, H103cm x L 85cm, Available, SALE PRICE $200
Wall shot, 2021
Wall shot, 2021
Many Boobs, Gouache on paper, H76cm x 58cm, SOLD!
Vee-Jays, Gouache on paper, H76cm x 58cm, SOLD!
Vessel snake, Gouache on paper, H76cm x 58cm, SOLD!
Shell Vessel, Gouache on paper, H76cm x 58cm, SOLD!
Mine is better, Gouache on paper, H76cm x 58cm, SOLD!
Veejays in a bow, Gouache on paper, H76cm x 58cm, SOLD!
Here I have placed the scarf in the landscape and my hope was to make it feel like it is a part of the landscape. Sort of camouflaged but we know it is not. The idea is to have these particles replicate exactly how nature develops and grow. By drifting particles( seeds and alike) to inform the viewer that this is an unseen language within nature most of the time.
The inverted aspects of the video are to show the complexity of nature and how my own painting has these same complexities!
Some of these Selected Paintings are concerned with exploring aspects of our Australian Flora combined with introduced species within our environment.
But mainly the new works explore the concepts of neurological patterns and there formations within the human mind and natures complex geometric shapes. These arrangements exist secretly within the new work showcasing the natural ability nature has to constantly make connections with its surroundings.
I love finding ways to relate how nature can survive, how she makes pathways when impacted upon. For a few years now I have been studying aspects of the brain and how to visually create parallels between the neurological pathways and how nature can also create new chaotic pathways too.
Gouache and Watercolour on canvas 102 x84cm, 2017 , SOLD
Prints Available Twenty Twenty Six Gallery
Gouache and Watercolour on canvas 102 x84cm, 2017, Sold
Gouache and Watercolour on canvas 102 x 168cm, 2018, Sold, Finalist in the Waterhouse Natural History ArtPrize 2018, Finalist in Splash at Mcclelland Sculpture Art Gallery Art Prize 2019
Gouache, Watercolour and Acrylic on canvas 84 x 107cm 2016
Winner of The Calleen Art Award, Cowra 2016
Gouache, Watercolour and Acrylic on canvas 84 x 107cm 2016, Aquisition Cowra Regional Gallery Collection
Gouache and Acrylic on canvas 84 x 107cm, 2016, SOLD
With a Fine Arts Degree in Sculpture, I just can’t help myself and just love exploring and creating installations based on the current subjects I am exhibiting. Here are a selected few that have been exhibited over the years and some recent installations.
Edge of earth - hand cut paper feathers - 2008 - Australian Galleries
Wall of feathers - ‘Verge of Vale’ - Made out of paper feathers on board - Australian Galleries - Cite, Paris France - French Australian Consulate, Paris France - Saint Tropez, France
Animation Capture - ‘Verge of Vale’ - Made out of paper feathers on board - Australian Galleries - Cite, Paris France - French Australian Consulate, Paris France - Saint Tropez, France
Papunya - Special invitation to work and respond to the history of Australia’s First Nation Artists. Exhibited Paris, France and Belgium.
Bundanons Fallen trees - Installation at Bundanon Trust Artist in residence program - 2009
Particle forms in play - Installation shot of printed fabric mold - BigCi Gallery - 2022
Fabric print - Installation - BigCi Open day 2022
Particles in the landscape - Installation of molded fabric - Bigci Open day 2022
Animation screen grab - Projection installation 4m x 5m - Bigci Open day 2022
r e s o n a n t w a v e - Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Gallery Commission - Performance animation onsite 27th August 2022.
r e s o n a n t w a v e - Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Gallery Commission - Performance animation onsite 27th August 2022.
r e s o n a n t w a v e - Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Gallery Commission - Performance animation onsite 27th August 2022.
r e s o n a n t w a v e - Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Gallery Commission - Performance animation onsite 27th August 2022.
Gallery Smith Project Space - Installation sculpted 20metre printed fabric - 2017
