Tanya Aviva Sillers

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Tanya Sillers was born in Montreal and moved to Toronto in her mid childhood, giving her a strong sense of belonging in the Canadian urban landscape. Primarily interested in the arts, she didn’t begin to experiment with photography until later in life and started showing her work recently. Tanya has studied at the Toronto School of Art, George Brown College and Seneca College in areas such as design and fine arts. Her photography skills have been largely self-taught and applied much as one would any other tool of the fine artist.

Artist’s Statement

Having always learned visually and taken in more by seeing than any of the other senses, I’ve seen humanity’s expressions, postures theslant of our shadows. My work expresses the tone of life flashing by while allowing myself and others feel a part of it. Photographyhas given me extraordinary freedom to capture this. I feel it is the responsibility of the artists to reveal beauty and I try to show a balanceof strength and subtlety in my pictures that reflects the living beauty of our world.

My pictures are taken with traditional photographic film using a 35mm single lense reflex camera. The images are at times skewed or out of focus to reveal the movement of life in even the most still of subjects. The best of the resulting images are cropped and scanned at high resolution to be printed on arches watercolour paper using archival inks in limited editions. This creates prints that last longer than traditional photographs while giving a wonderful sense of living texture.