The Geography of Feelings

"In Tiffanie Delune’s new paintings, colours and shapes swirl and spiral in a dizzying evocation of worlds– both psychological and material – in flux. In vibrant, occasionally textured, tones, swift lines describe circles, triangles and mysterious grids; flowers bloom, heat pulsates and a sense of both turbulence and balance reigns. Although ostensibly abstract, images emerge from the maelstrom: exuberant forms which evoke mango trees and spines, butterfly wings, brains and lungs rise from a ground in which materials such as sand and cotton papercuts are variously mixed with oil and acrylic paint, pastel, spray paint, gold leaf and thread. Her starting point is always the natural world. ‘I’m obsessed’, she said, ‘with trees, flowers and fruits; shapes in nature that echo the human body and that evoke human emotions’." - Press Release, text by Jennifer Higgie.