TREVA TABIOS: "HAIKU TO CANVAS"
"HAIKU TO CANVAS" TREVA TABIOS JANUARY 2019 [click on all images to enlarge] Treva Tabios’ exhibition of 2018 paintings provides a rare opportunity to see an artist at literally her birth: these paintings are, with one exception, chronologically her first 14 paintings! Treva’s progress is unimaginable. She wasn’t setting out to be an artist, per se, when she began painting. She was simply looking for a new hobby. So she painted her first painting “Indulge” which was intended originally as living room decoration. But she posted its image on Facebook and it made me sit up and take notice. I sent over some encouragement. She then posted her second painting, “Consume by fire.” At that point, I not only encouraged her but encouraged her to “Go big.” A comparison of her first painting “Indulge” at 20” x 30” and, say, her fifth painting, “Wild Ride” at 36” x 48” is telling: "Indulge" "Wild Ride" Treva’s paintings clea...