Carolyn Tantanella
Artist Statement
Carolyn Tantanella is a Michigan native currently working from her home studio in Hillsdale, Michigan. She uses watercolor and digital paint to create illustrations which become the designs for woven jacquard tapestries and fine art prints. She spends much of her time in front of the sewing machine. The relationship between painting and tapestry-making is on full display wherever her woven art is shown. Her work involves themes of inner exploration, afterlife, mysticism and childlike curiosity. Inspired by sleeping dreams and children’s books, her style offers a melancholy comfort to the viewer while inviting deeper introspection. The places we discover while looking inward change the places we go in life. She is the founder of A Cup of Cloudy, an art shop for those who aim to soften the room.
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