Canyon Courier 7
December 9, 2020
A magic artistic touch Artist Tatiana Lee lets the universe guide her paintings BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Tatiana Lee’s home is wallpapered in her paintings. The Snyder Mountain resident has been painting so much that the walls of her home — living room, kitchen, bedrooms, hallways and even the bathrooms — are filled with her framed paintings large and small. Painting, she says, is like opening a letter: The universe sends a message, and all she has to do is read it on the canvas. Sometimes she starts with, as she puts it, “an empty canvas and an empty head,” not knowing where the paint and her brush will take her. She calls it an artistic pareidolia, which is like seeing shapes in clouds or faces in rocks. “Why fight it?” she asked. “If a face or birds or an elephant want to be on the canvas, then they need to be there.” For instance, she decided to paint the rings of Saturn, but as she was painting, a face appeared out of nowhere. Rather than painting over it, she left the face in the painting. “I don’t think to paint,” she said. “I start painting something realistic, and then the painting takes over.”
Artist Tatiana Lee stands in front of some of her paintings on the walls of her home. PHOTOS BY DEB HURLEY BROBST
She believes her paintings are part God and part nature filtered through her. “Nature shows you its soul,” she said. “The beauty is in front of you, and it has the capacity to heal people’s souls and bring them closer to God. Only humans can understand God’s genius and really see his message.” Some of Lee’s paintings take a few hours while others can take a few weeks. “Some are so magical,” she said, “they fly out of you with no hesitation or breaks.” She employs every technique imaginable, which is why each painting is unique from fantasy to Picasso-like to realistic. Rob Lee, Tatiana’s husband of 17 years, is a musician, and he works downstairs in his studio while she paints upstairs in her studio with lots of light and beautiful views to
Artist Tatiana Lee paints in her home studio on Snyder Mountain.
the west. He said their home was like a museum with Tatiana’s paintings on the walls, and the two are opposites,
so they complement each other like ying and yang. SEE ARTIST, P12
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