“It was the clarity of purpose she needed, so she sought out paradise, but all she discovered in paradise was the mystery of a miracle rising from the depths of tragedy and pain.” ~Tionna Watson
I am not one kind of artist. I would probably be described as a minimalist, romanticist, surrealist, or fauvist. I do not focus on doing one type of art style because I’d get uninspired. I don’t loose interest, I come right back, but I always need something new and that is portrayed in the art I create. My art manifests the beauty of equality between self and with others, which is yet to exist in our society. I want to evoke the realization of the true beauty of balance and perfect harmonization. I make prints and paintings-both traditionally and digitally- that capture iridescence, royalty, storytelling, weightlessness, and exquisite women of mystery; all of which I believe are ingredients to the purity of a soul. There is no method to my madness. Meaning there is no process that I go through to come up with what I do. All my art starts with a thought or an idea, and that idea broadens as I am creating. I am influenced by the richness of rare uniqueness. To be more specific: albinism, genetic mutations, the ‘inhumane’, bodiless and headless, also the lack of identity. In my recent works I try to create a different way of seeing what society sees as abnormal and slice into race equality so I can piece it back together, and it’s diversity is displayed on my canvas. My art is everything to me. It’s my voice, my vision, and what I see. I am questioned a lot on why I don’t draw men or lean my towards drawing African American women all the time. The reason is simple: I am an black woman and my art is me.
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