Tjaša Iris is an exceptional colourist, and her work is inspired by vegetation, gardens and outdoor landscapes. Her paintings depict flowers and lush tropical gardens in bright, vivid, lush colours. Her artistic roots are in expressionism, a modernist movement that emerged in Europe in the beginning of the last century. It typically presented the world from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke a particular mood. Expressionist artists sought to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality.  Tjasa Iris continues to develop her interest in expressive colour. Her paintings give the impression of flatness, complexity and modernity.

She views her work as a continuation of expressionism. Colour is her main concern, used freely and vibrantly to explore emotion. Her paintings vibrate with the contrasts of warm and cold, light and dark, bright and dull, and she captures the essence of the places she visits in vibrant abstracted pictures. Gardens with lush tropical vegetation and ornaments, busy landscapes with swirling clouds, from the Botanic Gardens of Singapore, to the Thai King’s Bhubing Palace Gardens in Chiang Mai, her use of colour and shape captivates the viewer with a joyful celebration of life through her art.

Tjaša Iris was born in Slovenia, and educated in Italy, England and the Netherlands. She lived in Venice, Paris and California before travelling to South-East Asia. In 2010 her work was presented at Instinc Gallery in Singapore, at Art Singapore where she was exhibiting as a NEW FIND, The Affordable Art Fair Singapore, Wina Gallery in Ubud, Bali and UCSI University in Kuala Lumpur. Her exhibition at The Substation is part of her 2012 – 2013 Asian exhibition tour that started in Chiang Mai, Thailand at 116 Art Gallery early this year and in Bangkok at Neilson Hays Rotunda Gallery in February and will continue to Dubai International Art Center in October. It will end with a personal exhibition at Chiang Mai Contemporary Art Museum in November of 2013.