Tiffany Skyers

Artist Biography:

Tiffany Skyers has been interested in the arts since her youth. Her creative influences have been current events, personal lifestyle changes, and her family's ethnic background. Inspired by her Jamaican lineage, her palette tends to use vibrant and bold colors, patterns, and foliage. Her desire to put her world on paper has been encouraged by her family, teachers, and mentors.

In college, Tiffany began to network with her surrounding art communities of Charlotte, NC and Savannah, GA. She was invited to participate in events as a featured live painter and vendor for smaller organizations and businesses, graduating from Savannah College of Art and Design with her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts, Communicative Design. Since then, she has been developing an online presence that has lent hand in her work being requested on a national and international scale.

With her increase in demand, Tiffany hopes to someday achieve her goal of opening a teen club catering to art therapy for at risk youth.

THE ARTIST PRACTICE

As a painter, my self-expression has always been a priority. My pieces have allowed me to organize my thoughts and work out my problems. As I paint, I tend to think more about how I communicate my emotions and less about how I will be perceived as an individual. I focus on my purpose - healing others through my art the way that I have been healed through creating it. My heart shining through a canvas creates a vulnerability not only within me but conjured within my viewers.

My favorite audience has always been younger adults, ages 16 to 30, as young people are most likely to have muffled voices. I use political and pop culture references, social and economic struggles, as well as illustrate emotional instability such as anxiety, depression, panic, and mania. These topics are often dealt with hardest at pivotal times in life, your late teens through 20s. Based on life experience, and watching others, this is the time many are “finding” themselves and settling into the person they will become.

My goal is to create an environment that aides in the transitional time for at risk youth. I want to provide them with opportunities that will direct them towards a more positive journey. In vague terms, my art will be used as a mode of communication to their peers and social workers, but also an uplifting path for the future.

THE STUDIO PRACTICE

I tend to start every project with a doodle. Doodling allows me to vomit out my ideas and then go back in and refine them as the image is developing. I love to use symbolism in my pieces, vibrant colors, and a variety of textures. This allows for a sensory overload and captivation in every piece.

My goal with each work is always to first shock the viewer with the overall image, and then suck them in to view the finer details. Most symbols have common meanings, while others may be more specific to my feelings towards them. My choice of colors has always been vibrant because I feel as if they echo my reach for joy while being excellent tools in reflecting a chaotic state of mind. Lastly, I develop a sense of visual texture as I layer my tints to shades.

I begin with a piece color blocking with lighter colors, then applying shades. to allow more flexibility to make mistakes. Then after the darks are placed, I add in highlights and detailed markings. Every painting then ends being titled and sealed with the kiss of my signature. Titling at the end always makes me happiest, because then, there is no box that I've isolated my piece into.

My studio space has always been my haven, no matter how big or small. I love to have candles burning, good music playing, and air circulating. I surround myself with my artwork and that of artists that inspire me, which are mounted on my walls. These things encourage positive energy and a peaceful state of mind because having a clear head stops me from overthinking ideas and concepts. Having my inspiration aligning my walls and shelves helps motivate me to push myself further with each new piece I create.