BIO

Tinu has been a resident of Virginia for over thirty 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 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.

EXHIBITIONS

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

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.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I paint landscapes, figures, portraits and glimpses of everyday life. I am inspired by the simplicity, ephemeral quality and the brilliance in nature.

My landscapes include paintings done from photographs from my travels, as well as plein air painting.

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.

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.