About the Artist Tanja Bos has lived in Washington, DC since 1989, but is originally from the Netherlands. She received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and has an MFA from the University of the Arts. Tanja was surrounded by art when growing up in Europe, influenced by her mother who is a painter and sculptor and still resides in the Netherlands. She grew up watching her mother work in her studio. Tanja's studio is in her Washington, DC home. She has recently shown her works in Gallery Plan b and Ground Floor Gallery in Washington, DC. Her medium is oil paint on small and large scale canvases. “I imagine unfocussed images in my mind as I have once envisioned or dreamed an experience. It is not my goal to achieve realism in my work, but to seek an expression of that which is yet to be discovered. I find nature awe inspiring, forever a narrative that speaks to me. I am inspired by my travels throughout Europe and think often of the passing views of the beautiful scenery.” “I strive to achieve a mood in my paintings, a captured moment, and play between abstraction and a more defined visual. I use an intensely rich and dramatic color palette to evoke the dreamlike qualities that will draw in the viewer to seek their own relationship” © 2010 Tanja Bos. All rights reserved.