Paintings that get the ears right.
Dogs, cats, horses, birds — the occasional goat. Tatiana Clover paints them in acrylic, each on its own field of color, each one unmistakably yours.
Each animal gets its own field of color — powder blue, lavender, ochre, sage — mixed before the first stroke of fur goes down.
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No. 001Brucea Highland steer · acrylic on canvasTap to view
No. 002Vespera barn owl · acrylic on canvasTap to view
No. 003Captaina blue-and-gold macaw · acrylic on canvasTap to view
She also paints small — clay pendants and magnets, a couple of inches tall, for the people who want their animal within reach.
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03 · Selected works
She gets the ears right, then everything else.
Tatiana has been painting animals since grade school, when the margins of her notebooks kept filling up with horses — her grandmother’s first, then everyone else’s. Her first commission was a neighbor’s terrier, painted three times over until the ears were right. She has been getting the ears right ever since.
She works in acrylic, fur built up stroke by stroke over a flat field of color mixed before the animal ever appears — powder blue, lavender, ochre, sage. The color is chosen for the animal, never the other way around. The work runs from full stretched canvases to clay pendants a couple of inches tall: dogs mostly, but cats, horses, birds, and anything else with a face somebody loves.
New to Palatka, Florida, she paints from a studio near the St. Johns River, working from photographs and one long conversation about the animal — the crooked ear, the exact head tilt, the color they turn in the late sun.
A private room in Palatka, Florida, on the St. Johns River, hung with other people’s animals. Visits by appointment, when commissions open.