Tisha Kenny

Artist Background

Tisha has studied numerous visual art media with a focus primarily on Japanese and Chinese brush painting, Her work combines her love of Impressionism with Asian Brush Painting.

Curator Exhibit Statement

“Tisha Kenny practices multiple disciplines of watercolor.  She is inspired by the impressionist movement, and one of her styles is reminiscent of this aesthetic, with her own personal flare added in the form of painting with watercolor on rice paper, sometimes placing an additional piece of rice paper under a still wet painting in process to create multiple impressions of a similar image, developing each one separately with various effects of abstract to realistic interpretations. This process results in a multi-layered, highly-textural image of botanical and natural subject matter, rendered in a neo-impressionist style of mixed-media watercolor.  Tisha developed the neo-impressionist mixed-media style herself over many years. She is also fascinated and drawn to the watercolor and ink-wash technique known as Sumi-e, a one-stroke Chinese style of rendering botanical subjects utilizing single strokes for each element of the painting. She has studied the Sumi-e /Chinese Brush Painting for 20 years. A number of her paintings represent the integration of Asian Brush Painting and Impressionism. She also has 11 degrees in Ikenobo Ikebana Flower Arraging, studying this discipline for 35 years.”