As a prolific painter and collage/mixed media artist, Tanya Trinkaus Glass has made a career of creating art.

Glass’ style emanates from realism but leans toward impressionism and abstraction. Her energy of movement shows in her loose drawings and her spontaneous expression in all media. Because she experiments very freely, she has discoveries, which enhance her work, and often lead her to create more complex, energetic and exciting art.

Through the years, Ms. Glass has painted nature – flowers, woods, beaches, marshes, palms and trees, and other aspects of her environment – always trying to capture the feelings of peace, harmony, rhythm, and often excitement, which she absorbs from the experience.

Creating mystery in her work intrigues her through layering, removing, and more layering. She has used many media, including oil and pastel (often en plein air),watercolor, acrylic, and collage with many materials including fabrics, wood, branches, old stuff, papers, each used to best portray her intention and most often combined to create mixed media.

Experimentation and flexibility have always been a large part of Ms. Glass’ modus operandi, even when she collaged or sewed as a child. She thinks ‘crazy’ quilts are awesome! Texture and color have always been the main focus and interest in her work.

Glass drew inspiration from the textures and bright colors of Van Gogh’s oils, the textures and simplicity of Jasper Johns’ art, the bold textural abstract collages of Robert Rauschenberg, the abstraction and structure of Richard Diebenkorn’s works, and,especially, the layering and varying textures which Odilion Redonused in his pastels.

These artists, as well as other contemporary artists, have inspired Glass to search, to experiment, and to find the medium or technique which best enables her to express her inner self through her art.

Going to art museums as a child was always a search for how an artist created the work in front of her, and that search and intrigue continue to this day. There is always a new technique, a new approach; a new question, which might inspire Glass to continue to create another artwork.