Tanja Schaub’s work explores the visceral interplay of light, shadow, and colour, distilling their essence into bold, emotive compositions. Rather than depicting the external world with precision, she translates its rhythms and energies through heightened contrasts, gestural movement, and intuitive mark-making. Driven by the desire to capture the feeling of a space, whether expansive or intimate, fleeting or enduring, her creative process begins with an immediate, emotional response to the world, transforming subconscious impressions and memories into vivid, dynamic forms.

Each piece is an immersion into the psyche, where raw emotion and instinct take precedence over deliberate structure. Colours clash and harmonise, brushstrokes pulse with urgency, and compositions evolve unpredictably, mirroring both turbulence and stillness. In her intuitive process, she enters a state of near self-erasure, allowing the painting to dictate its own path. This release is both cathartic and essential, creating work that is unfiltered and deeply felt. Upon completion, she experiences a sense of detachment, not of loss but of liberation, watching the piece take on its own presence beyond the studio.

For her, painting is not just an act of observation but an assertion of existence, an attempt to make the intangible tangible, to give form to sensation and memory. Through light, shadow, and colour, she channels the intensity of lived experience, inviting viewers to engage not only with the visual world but with the raw emotional currents beneath its surface.