BIO
Tinu has been a resident of Virginia for over thirty five years and paints in her home studio. She was born in India and has undergraduate degrees in English literature and Commercial art. Interested in art from an early age she has been painting since childhood. Initially, she began working as a graphic designer but soon pursued her passion for painting as a professional artist. Tinu is also a graduate of the three year master artist program at The Compass Atelier in Rockville MD and has attended many workshops over the years including master artists- Steven Assael, Alyssa Monks and Roberto Osti.
She has sold paintings to private individuals and does commissioned work.
Tinu is a member of the Artist-in-Residence Program at Inova Schar Cancer Institute, bringing the visual arts, painting and creative resources to facilitate healing. She paints on canvas on the premises demonstrating the joy of painting on an ongoing basis.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My abstract paintings are intuitive and expressionist. Using acrylics and mixed media I work in layers with color, form, line, texture and gestural strokes, inspired by my recollection of images and imagination.
In my current series I explore the interconnectedness and interdependence in human existence. Bold shapes echoing human forms interweave, depicting connections and entwinement.
In my earlier paintings of landscapes and glimpses of everyday life, inspired by the simplicity and the ephemeral quality in nature these paintings are done from photographs from my travels.
Portraits are largely my commissioned work sketching and painting from models and photographs. I work on various subjects using oils and acrylics on canvas as well as pastel or charcoal on paper.
EXHIBITIONS
Washington Studio School WSS Confab 2025 (currently exhibiting)
Falls Church Arts “The Beauty of Diversity” 2024
Compass Atelier Invitational Juried July 2024
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery 2022, 2023
Mclean Project for the Arts 2023
Group Show: The Art of Nature 2022
Commissioned paintings and Drawings, 2021 and 2022
Exhibiting Artist, Gallery 75 The Art League September 2020
The Art League June 2024, November, August, July, January 2020, 2011
Montgomery Art Association Juried January 2021 October, September, August, July 2020
Mclean Project of the Arts 2019
Women’s Club of Chevy Chase, MD 2019
Brookside Gardens 2019
League of Reston Artists 2018, 2011
Benefit Galas Crisislink, GIF, 2015, 2014, 2013
Solo Exhibition, Great Falls VA 2012