Tjaša Iris is continuing in her own research in colour as well as adding the atmosphere of today’s world to it. Her paintings give you the feel of the flatness of a computer screen. Her busy complex compositions reflect the busy loud information era of the fast moving time of today. She is a clear representative of the Internet Generation.

 She visited SE Asia for the first time in 2009 with her trip to Hong Kong. She fell in love with the explosive creative energy of this part of the world. In February 2010 she spent a month as artist resident at Instinc Art Space in Singapore, where she had her first exhibition that was very well accepted. In March 2010 she travelled to Bali for the first time, where she wanted to see more of Arie Smit’s work. She found Neka Museum in Ubud very inspiring. She spent about three hours (until she was asked to leave, because they were closing the museum) in the room of Theo Meier, reading a book about his life, that was on display in the room. She also met Arie Smit, at the time 94 years old. She visted him at his home several times, where they exchanged catalogues of each other’s work and talked about bright colors. Later in June she was selected as “New Find” for Art Singapore 2010 where she was granted a personal exhibition. While exhibiting at Art Singapore 2010 a gallerist Wanthip Nimmanhaeminda from 116 Art Gallery in in Chiang Mai, Thailand passed by, saw and admired her work. She invited her to come to Chiang Mai to talk about the exhibition in her gallery. After extensively exhibiting at AAF Art Fair Singapore 2010 in November and after spending two months again in Ubud, Bali, where she also had an exhibition with Wina Gallery in December, she left for Chiang Mai. After some days being a guest of the gallerist, Mrs. Wanthip Nimmanhaeminda told her, it was her father who invited Theo Meier from Bali to Chiang Mai, where he built a very beautiful house very close to their home and spent there the last years of his life.

In March 2011, Tjasa had a lecture and an exhibition at UCSI University in Kuala Lumpur for International Woman’s Day. In December 2011 she returned back to Chiang Mai for a 4 women exhibition at 116 Art Gallery. The title of the exhibition was “Nouveau Expressionism”. She exhibited 18 paintings. The gallery also organized for her an exhibition at Neilson Hays Rotunda Gallery in Bangkok in February 2012 and is now in the process of organizing an  exhibition at Chiang Mai Contemporary Art Museum for November 2013 and a second one in Bangkok at Jamjuree State Gallery.

Tjaša Iris views her work as a continuation of the concerns of Expressionism. Colour is the main concern in her paintings, exploring the emotional and expressive qualities. Her colours are used freely and vibrantly. The paintings vibrate with the contrasts of warm and cold, light and dark, bright and dull. She is now more than ever an avid traveller, and she captures the essence of the places she visits in vibrant abstracted pictures. Gardens with lush tropical vegetation and ornaments, busy landscapes with swirling clouds, Botanic Gardens of Singapore, Thai King’s Phu Ping Palace Gardens in Chiang Mai, gardens in Bali … Through her use of colour and shape she captivates the viewer with her joyful celebration of life through her art. The explosive energy of SE Asia is making her paintings even more vibrant. She is also spending much time studying physics, the new studies about what the scientists have to say about the 5th, 6th, 7th … dimension.

Truly her paintings make us dream of a world in another dimension. Who can say? The fifth dimension, the sixth? Or of a parallel world to our world? A dream world of strong light, lush colours and happy atmospheres.