biography

Tania Still was born (1976) and grew up in North Yorkshire before uprooting and moving to London in 1996 to study at the City and Guilds of London Art School in Kennington, where she completed her diploma and postgraduate studies in Fine Art painting.

 Embarking on her artistic career, in her London studio she now concentrates on painting different breeds of hounds, to convey the changing attitudes to rural life, which she is very much concerned with.

She predominantly concentrates painting Hounds from British Isle packs. Using photography, she trails the country taking images of various packs at their Kennels or Meets. Her subjects are, Foxhounds, Coursing Greyhounds, Beagles, Harriers and Mink Hounds. To create these images Tania uses Oil on Canvas in various sizes, but she always uses a square, as she does not want to give the viewer a preconceived bias towards a landscape or portrait format. Either of these formats would create a definite environment to an image. Continuing her theme that a hound has anonymity within their pack, this lack of bias in using squares is fundamental to her work.

The anonymity that individual hound have in their own environment enables them to present an alternative perception of rural life: the strength, the serenity, the beauty and the power: bringing out the individual from the pack to form an intimate relationship between the hound and the observer.