All Eyes On: Tiffany Wong

Tiffany Wong is an emerging artist based in Montreal, Canada and she makes hybrid paintings that combine painting with textile art. Using natural inks and paints made with natural pigments, she uses a visual lexicon of colour, shape, line and texture to explore themes of dreams, stories, childhood & motherhood. Her practice is constantly evolving as she continues to research natural and traditional techniques to make her art. Wong holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal where she majored in Film Animation and Painting and Drawing. In 2019, she was awarded the Prix de Relève at Mtl en Arts in Montreal. As of 2022, she is currently represented by Wishbone Art Gallery in Montreal. Her work is collected in homes across Canada and the USA

Tiffany Wong’s paintings are places. They are landscapes of the invisible, instances from childhood and rich storied worlds. She forgoes any overtly recognizable imagery in her work, opting for a vocabulary that is descriptive and felt while letting the viewer decipher her shapes, marks and textures into an understanding of their own. As Wong’s work flows in a stream of consciousness, her work touches upon the traditions of abstract expressionism. Kitchen scraps and foraged plants boil for hours to form the natural inks alongside the paints that she makes with natural pigments that she will use in her work. Pools of natural inks and pigments dry overnight and sometimes, they converge with China ink, referencing Chinese ink wash paintings, as a nod to Wong’s cultural heritage. Through a growing language of shapes carefully painted in pastel-coloured gradients, quick mark-making, embroidered surfaces and tufted shapes, she simultaneously presents the viewer with lived experience and the fantastic. Her process is slow and never rushed and she knows a piece is finished when a sense of balance is obtained. She wishes to impart that same pause to the viewer and provide a sense of harmony, sheltering the viewer from the tumult of the outside world.