“My work explores how light transforms these landscapes into immersive fields of colour, atmosphere and memory."

ABOUT

“My work explores how light transforms these landscapes into immersive fields of colour, atmosphere and memory."

Sandra Tinari is a Western Australian artist whose paintings, photography and sculptural works explore the transformative power of light and colour.

Inspired by the extraordinary salt lakes, mineral terrains and vast skies of Western Australia, her work investigates moments when changing light turns familiar landscapes into immersive chromatic experiences. Drawing on extensive photographic field research, Tinari translates these fleeting observations into vibrant paintings and sculptural forms that move between landscape and abstraction.

Colour sits at the centre of her practice. Layered pastel fields, luminous surfaces and energetic passages of vibrant colour capture the fleeting atmospheres found across Western Australia's inland environments. Rather than describing a specific location, her works seek to evoke the sensation of being within these expansive landscapes and the emotional response created through colour, light and space.

Photography remains fundamental to Tinari's process. More than three decades working internationally as a photographer, journalist and visual storyteller developed a deep sensitivity to light, atmosphere and observation. Today, field research undertaken across remote Western Australian landscapes continues to inform every stage of her studio practice.

Throughout her career Tinari has lived and worked across Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe and the Middle East, producing exhibitions, public artworks, installations and cultural projects. Experiences in London, Italy, Portugal and Dubai broadened her understanding of colour, environment and contemporary spatial practice, influencing the distinctive visual language that now defines her work.

Now based in the Perth Hills, Tinari creates immersive chromatic landscapes that celebrate the extraordinary beauty, vibrancy and changing light of Western Australia's unique environments.

EDUCATION

Tinari holds a Bachelor of Arts (Photography and Journalism) from Curtin University and undertook postgraduate studies in Visual Arts at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.