Freda Tan is a Toronto-based painter working in oil paint. Her work visualizes flux sentience — the understanding that all matter, awareness, and being exist in a perpetual state of becoming. Her paintings capture charged moments of elemental transition in ways that are at once organic and abstracted. Soft brushwork allows forms to breathe into one another, as light and gestural line carry energy across the surface. Encountering her work, viewers are invited to sense the vibrating energy of matter in motion and to feel the openness of possibility within every moment of becoming.
Freda holds an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from University of Toronto and an Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at OCAD university.
“I use familiar images and the five elements as entryways to remind viewers that the elements are not abstract concepts but the very substrate of our sensory experience.Through layered transparency, directional gestural lines and shifting color, I seek to capture universal flux – the sentient state of everything which consists of energy waves.”
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