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Art Club, Art New England,
Maine Coast Art Workshops,
Hudson River Valley Art
Workshops, Center for the
Arts of Bonita Springs,
Naples Art Association, and
other regional institutions
and with various artists.
Glass’ artwork has been
exhibited in galleries in New
Hampshire, in Naples, Florida
and around Rhode Island.
lass has been an artist Her work is in collections
G her entire life, but nationwide and has earned
most intensely in college many awards. She enjoys
and then again in the last artist membership in
several years, after several the Providence Art Club
years as a practicing catalog (R.I.), the Naples Art
“Panther’s Woods”. Oil on canvas. 30” x 40” x 1.5. This librarian. Glass grew up in Association, Center for
painting shows the movement Tanya felt when she was painting Stony Creek, Connecticut, the Arts of Bonita Springs,
the trees, the leaves, which were moving slightly in the breeze. but has lived in Rhode and the Southwest Florida
It also shows the light and how it flickered down through the
Island, New Hampshire, and Pastel Society. Formerly
leaves out there in the Panther Preserve, and the textures of she was a member at the
nature as they were lit, or not lit in the woods. Naples, Florida for many
“Sabals Coming Alive”. Pastel on paper. 24 x 18. The sabal palms years, painting life around Wickford Art Association,
in Naples always have intrigued Tanya with the grooves, crevices, her. She has studied at the East Greenwich Art Club,
weeds growing and all those textures and colors in the ‘boots’ of the University of Wisconsin, the Newport Art Museum, and
palms, especially those that snap off naturally. She has always enjoyed Maryland Institute College was a cooperative member
painting trees, but the drama of the sabal palms tops them all. of Art, the University of of the Sunapee Area Artists
“Down the Trail”. Acrylic, charcoal, oil, and collage on Rhode Island, the Newport Association and Spring Bull
paper. 14 x 20. The energy that Tanya felt from the movement Art Museum, the Providence Studio/Gallery in Newport.
of the branches, trees and light shows here, as does the bark
texture and other textures of all the natural elements.

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