La Frida de los Agaves Collage

Tanya is Mexican by birth; she grew up in Tijuana, Mexico's border to San Diego, California, in an artistic environment that exposed her at an early age to the world of art and design. encouraged by her mother, she studied, besides her normal school obligations fashion Illustration at the Ibero University she was only 9 at the time, her restlessness personality grew more and her passion to art at the point where all her school books were used by her as sketchbooks. At the age of 17, she moved to Mexico City to study junior high school. The capital city immersed her into every kind of available art, museums, exhibitions, performances, and all kinds of culture which she thought fascinating. There she began painting and expanded her repertoire focusing on details. In the early nineties, she moved to the small fishing town called Los Cabos, Mexico, where she began selling her work in local galleries and thereon, We can consider Tanya as one of the first artists of the Baja Art Movement. Flowers, native Indians, and bright colors were shown in her early collections. From 2001 - 2010 she lived in Arizona, California, Maine, and Vermont. It was here where she started experimenting and selling interior design together with her art. She became a student at the “Scottsdale Artist League School”. She opened a Concept Store called “PALIA URBAN HACIENDA” right on Marshall Way which was the main street for art in Scottsdale, Arizona. “I was involved in decoration, custom made furniture and art”. The Four Seasons, Scottsdale remodel was among her most interesting and largest projects, she was hired to produce furniture Art and accessories, though she never stopped sending her work Los Cabos, Baja California Sur. In 2011 she settled back again in Los Cabos where she founded “Studio TT Art School and Gallery”, which evolved, as the first formal school of art in Los Cabos. The studio was also inside the ONE & ONLY, Palmilla Resort. We can say Tanya is very active She describes herself in her own words: I am very fortunate to be able to diversify my work in a dynamic and creative way, Creating Art, Sculptures integrating designs, enhancing interiors, space and achieving a more aesthetically, harmonious and pleasing environment for my clients