Born in 1990, Tyga lives and works in the UK. She is a painter and printmaker with drawing lying at the heart of her practice. She uses the directness and urgency of drawing from life as a springboard for all her work, finding her subjects in nature’s edgelands; where trees and mountains meet the sky, where sea meets rock or in tangled undergrowth. In working from life she celebrates the spontaneity of the moment whilst also building on memory and feeling by returning to places over and over again.
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Watch ‘Being in Landscape’ film here
Exhibitions
2024
Emerging Landscape Painting Today, Messums, Oct - Nov
South by South West, Gurr Johns, London Jan - Feb
Arcadia and Elsewhere, James Cohan, New York, Jan - Feb
2023
2022
Pageant, The Violet Hour, Abbott and Holder
2021
Constant Stars, The Violet Hour
Urgent is the Rhythm, Messums London
Drawing a Line Under Torture, Sotheby’s
Bucolia, Blue Shop Cottage
Forces of Nature, Glyndebourne
Unkempt, Messums
Inside|Outside, Janet Rady
2020
50 x 50, The Auction Collective
Avoiding the Hodgepodge, Crean and Company
On the Strangest Sea, The Violet Hour
All These Gestures, Bowes-Parris
On Paper, On Paper Gallery
Sky So Close, Blue Shop Cottage, London
A Dream is not a Dream, Purslane
Reaction in Seclusion, Reaction
The Birds are Singing in the Distant Woods, The Violet Hour
RI Painters in Watercolours, Mall Galleries
Derwent Art Prize, Oxo Tower Wharf
2019
Royal Institute of Watercolours, Mall Galleries, London
Auction Collective, Menier Gallery, London
Pastel Society Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2018
CAS, London
Salon 63, London
Draw, Mandells Gallery, Norwich
Fresh Paint, London
Forton Fine Art, Stockbridge
Pastel Society Exhibition, London
Drawings from Le Mepris, Piccadilly Arcade, London
Extraordinary Sketchbooks, Mount House, Marlborough
2017
Artreach, Bikaner House, Delhi
CAS, London
Turmeric, Daniel Raphael Gallery, London
Residency, Sanskriti Kendra, Delhi
2016
Breathe In, Sevenoaks School, Kent
Lynne Painter-Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London
Sevenoaks IB, OXO Tower Wharf, London
Drawings from the Royal Drawing School, Christie's, New York
2015
Drawing In, Mount House, Marlborough
Marking Spaces, London
Drawn from the Fleming Collection, The Fleming Collection, London
The Moving Space Between, London
Residencies and Awards
National Garden Scheme, Chelsea Flower Show
The Corridor Project, Australia
La Moissie creative residency, France
Vermont Studio Centre residency, USA
Borgo Pignano residency, Italy
Teaching residency with the International Institute for Arts, Modinagar, India
Nari Gunjan / Artreach teaching fellowship, Patna, India
Wedlake Bell award for a young Artist, CA
Artist in residence at Sevenoaks School, UK
Machin foundation prize, Drawing Year
Dumfries House residency, Scotland
Collections
The Royal Collection
Sir Michael Moritz Collection
Dumfries House Estate Collection
Features
Artists in their studios, House and Garden
Easel Words, The Jackdaw
Up Our Street, 8 Holland Street
Ways of Drawing: Artists Perspectives and Practice, Thames and Hudson
Colour Quotient Magazine, India
Pen and Ink: Contemporary Artists, Timeless Techniques
AnOther Magazine
Education
The Drawing Year, The Royal Drawing School, London 2013 - 2014
Painting erasmus at L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, Strasbourg 2010 - 2011
Fine Art and History of Art at Edinburgh College of Art and The University of Edinburgh 2008 - 2012