Tina Blondell

Tina Blondell was born in 1953 in Salzburg, Austria, to an American father and Austrian mother who encouraged her early interest in art. Tina has lived in Austria, France, Italy, and the U.S. She currently resides in Minneapolis (USA). The paintings below represent a sampling of her works in both watercolors and oils.

The portrait (left) is an oil on canvas completed 2000 (97 x 66 cm). The painting is in the style of the carved bone or ceramic figurines from paleolithic Europe known as "stiff nudes". More recent works can be found below.

The current body of work retells the stories of women, mythical and biblical, real and imagined. These archetypal images enquire into the essence of human experience revealed in feminine form.

The watercolor paintings had their origin in the personal experience of realizing the ways that life transforms us. The artists own realization of how she had been marked by events and emotions became clear in her identification with the fragile and fearless figures that emerged from her imagination. Through the creative process, pain had been transformed into beauty.

What began as an inward, healing process moved outward to reclaim the history of images of the feminine, rangin...