A Mystery Unraveled Painting

Lloyd Tabing is an abstract painter from the USA now living and working in Sweden. Tabing’s paintings are a visual representation of the dichotomy between reality and his simplified interpretation of this difficult subject to identify. Concealing as much as they reveal, Tabing’s paintings intertwine gestural marks, textures and fields of color that lure you in, tempting one to get lost in thought and emotion. Tabing’s paintings are based on the sense of space in which he seeks to understand what makes one space more appealing or catches one’s eye while others that are equally beautiful go virtually unnoticed. Tabing uses the physicality of paint and the combination of colors to create abstract paintings that express what he feels, experiences, and observes in these settings. Elements of light, color, movement, and texture, coupled with emotions and life experiences contrasted are found throughout his paintings. A self-proclaimed perfectionist, Tabing says that being self-taught has allowed for his uninhibited and pure style of painting. His approach to painting is reactionary and “guttural”, yet provocative and captivating. His hope is that the language of his paintings in some way provides the viewer a personal connection that speaks to them in an intimate way.