Artist Statement
I am interested in subjects with “layers” either emotionally or actual layers
through age, history. I try to convey this feeling through my application of materials on
the canvas, i.e. modeling paste (to create texture), soil, leaves etc, acrylic underpainting,
mixed media like oils, charcoal, pencil and pastel, erasing and building up again.
The work is primarily executed in the studio after sketches from life, photographs or
from memory. In the last few years I started placing figures/animals in land or waterscapes,
which I will be exploring further. I am not really interested in telling the viewer what to see, I prefer their own
emotional response to each image.

Biographical Information
Tinam Valk was born in Berlin, Germany of German and Dutch/Indonesian ancestry. She spent her childhood and early adulthood in the Netherlands where she received her art education at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague.
After coming to the United States , Tinam earned a post-baccalaureate degree in visual communications at the Maryland College of Art and Design. She worked as a free-lance illustrator and part-time art educator in suburban Washington, D.C. until 1996. Since then she has concentrated exclusively on fine art. Tinam has traveled extensively, including to such locales as East and West Africa, South America, Eastern and Western Europe, Central Asia. Tinam's work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions, selected group exhibitions and numerous
juried shows on the East Coast. Her work is in collections in Europe, the United States and South America.
Tinam maintains a studio at her home in Berwyn Heights, Maryland

Tinam Valk
www.tinamvalk.com