Tania Denton is a contemporary painter. She studied Fine Art Painting at Central Saint Martins and Chelsea College of Arts, and she was, until 2014, an Associate Lecturer in Fine Art (drawing and painting) for the University of the Arts London. Her work has been exhibited at Creekside Open 2015 (selected by Lisa Milroy), The Union Club, Soho (2017 and 2019), and at Flowers Gallery, Cork St (2018). She was on the committee for Blackhorse Lane Studios, BAGT, in 2017, and three of her paintings (‘Loaded’, ‘In the Dark’ and ‘Wreckage’) have been chosen by Contemporary British Painting for their ‘Painting of the Day’. Denton was longlisted out of 5,366 entries for Jacksons’s Open Painting Prize 2019. Her work also forms part of several private collections, including Danny Katz, Christian Fredercisen and The Union Club.
Writing:
Response to ‘Encounter’ after studio visits, by Nina Power
Dilapidated beams in an old barn. A bird flies low across the half-open, half-closed ruin. A place of childhood exploration, a farmyard, straw, of obscure memories that sit midway between golden and terrifying. A road tapers from left to right, cutting into the sand or straw. The beams drip, staining the sunlight, yet hope is here too, a way out, the tendrils from the wood or from some ancient tree gently tumbling down to one side. You could sleep here on the way to somewhere else.The inside and the outside shade into insignificance. The sunlight is both proximate and distant. The great outside beckons, a memory that is itself a promise of a golden future. The road becomes dunes, the countryside a desert. The encounter with something real turns everything on its axis and the territory is remappable once more.