Taryn Ossowski is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice investigates the boundaries between material presence and transpersonal experience. Working with natural earth pigments in innovative ways, she creates large-scale works that attempt to draw the viewer into a participatory engagement with the act of ‘seeing’.

Her methodology emerges from a synthesis of creativity, psychology and mysticism. Drawing from her training in transpersonal art therapy and studies at Saruya Artist Residency in Fujiyoshida, Japan. Ossowski has developed a process that attempts to honour the physical properties of earth pigment, their vivid, lucid, subtle and vibrant quality and particularly their capacity to transmute light. Through the ritual of rhythmic layering of pigment and mark-making, she builds paintings that function as thresholds for imaginative engagement and psychological exploration.