BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS Above The Earth There were a variety of acrylic gels used, with a lot of gold and orange colours, that created a painting that looks like a river of gold running through it. The artist describes it as her imagined viewpoint looking down [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS One Day In The Forest I Saw This is a textured and flowing piece with a focal point that represents the sun. Teyjah describes it as a playful painting that gives an evocative glimpse into the dark corners of a wooded glen, and [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS Fraser Delta This painting was created using two coats of paint, with some reticulation technique. The addition of Vitrail paint helped to emphasize the colours. The artist describes it "like you’re looking above the Fraser Delta, and you see the rivers coming together as [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS Your Love Is Like Ice Cream Teyjah describes this as ‘a sweet little painting’. It is a happy piece that the artist felt visually depicted an ice cream cone. The style is very textured and playful, with an overriding sense of summertime. 2017 [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS Loose Ends In creating this painting, the artist developed it with very heavy line work, which she purposefully did not connect and left lots of loose ends.  Teyjah feels that this piece can create a sense or feeling of interconnectedness or disconnectedness [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS Gold Slick From the start, Teyjah created this painting with experimentation in mind. Various colours of Vitrail oil-based alkyds, both transparent and opaque, were intermingled in an attempt to control the image. When the artist liked the basic image being created she added [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS There’s Gold in Them Thar Hills After the first 3 paintings, Teyjah learned what would happen with different combinations and the chemical reactions and effects that would take place. In this painting, she discovered you can layer the alkyds, which can make [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS Bejeweled Florals This piece has a strong suggestion of layers of florals -- this comes from the artist’s technique of overlapping layers of colour. “I wish I could say I totally controlled it, but this painting was a lovely surprise to me when [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS Pirouette The artist was playing with a product called Cerne Relief to create the lines you see, not knowing what would happen. She added Cerne Relief Outliner, working wet on wet, putting lines down before they dried and then adding the colours in [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS The Wizard of ID When creating this piece, Teyjah accidentally left the canvas sloped while it was drying. This created more movement in the paint than she expected. She describes this piece - “I ended up liking it and the interesting shape it [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS Line Dance In creating this piece, the paint was put down first, then the lines. It started as a petroglyph symbol but, as often happens, artists change their mind in the process of painting. As it progressed, the lines were added with Cerne [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS Secret Garden Like a secret waiting to be told, this painting can be elusive and contains many intangible images within it. In this piece, Teyjah pushes her regular “comfort colours” to work with a different colour palette. ”I wanted to try something new [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS Caribbean Fiesta This was the first painting in a series that Teyjah began in June 2017. It was also the first one using a new technique and alkyd paints. It was very experimental, and Teyjah in her boldness threw everything into the [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS Vein Of Gold Teyjah was in testing mode and wanted to find out what the oil- based alkyds would do on a textured surface. She learned that it gave her some very interesting formations. She found that wherever the paints pooled while [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS The Maze This piece, the artist proclaimed, ‘had everything thrown in it’ creating a cauldron effect. Working into the painting a second layer of colour, before the first was dry, created different reactions and subsequent textures and layers. “When it’s not fully [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS Eye of the Storm In this painting the artist used tar gel, coarse pumice and a lot of matte gel to create a textured surface. She then layered oil-based alkyds over top of the surface. The resulting effect can be interpreted as a [...]

BACK TO ABSTRACT OILS PAINTINGS COLLECTION ABSTRACT PAINTINGS Autumn Leaves Teyjah describes her work on this painting as ‘deliberately waiting so she could get the paint to flow, hoping there wouldn’t be too much congealing’. This piece utilizes molding paste as a base which she imprinted with different objects and then [...]