The work of Tanasuda Benecke — totemic faces, watching eyes and shamanic forms, built from line and detonating colour.
A living archive. Tanasuda is currently working digitally — these pieces are produced on screen and on canvas in acrylic.
Every face holds another face. I paint until the spirit underneath starts looking back. — Tanasuda Benecke
Tanasuda Benecke is a visual artist working between the digital canvas and acrylic paint. Her practice is instinctive and unplanned — compositions grow outward from a single mark, layering ornament, symbol and watching eyes until a face or creature emerges from the density.
The recurring vocabulary is unmistakable: shamanic masks, totemic figures, labyrinthine line-work and an electric palette that swings from earthy ochre to acid greens and saturated reds. The influence of folk and tribal art meets a contemporary, expressionist energy.
Today her focus is digital painting, where line and colour can be pushed to an intensity that traditional media resist — though the hand, and the acrylic canvas, remain central to the work.
Current focus. Built mark by mark on the tablet — thick black contours over luminous, layered colour fields. Each piece can carry hundreds of small ornamental decisions.
The physical counterpart. Bold gestural brushwork and impasto colour, where the totemic faces are pulled directly out of the paint.
The skeleton of everything. Dense, meditative pen-work — the patterning and symbols that thread through the whole body of work.
For commissions, prints, exhibitions or original acrylic works — get in touch directly.
hello@tanasuda.com