Arts byTADEO

The Work

Tadeo has more than a hundred paintings, on canvas and on glass. They are being photographed properly right now. Until those photographs land, this page shows examples of what is coming.

Two figures leaning toward each other on a bare cobalt ground, bodies in ochre and olive under heavy black contour, a single red rose held between them.Example

Two Figures, One Rose

Example, not a real painting

A standing figure with both arms lifted, on a scratched gold ground, the body broken into facets of pink, orange and black, the face flattened toward a mask.Example

Hands Raised

Example, not a real painting

An allover field of faces, birds and small creatures in looping line work over a dark ground, acid yellow and hot pink and cyan packed edge to edge.Example

Every Nation

Example, not a real painting

Two figures side by side in warm ochre and white against a deep blue and green ground, heavy black contours, a bird above them.Example

Two Standing, and a Bird

Example, not a real painting

A figure holds a flat grey mask away from its own face on a burnt orange ground. The face underneath is warmer and more alive than the mask covering it, in ochre and white with a red mouth.Example

The Mask Is Not the Man

Example, not a real painting

Almost an empty canvas. Bone white and pale grey, scraped back until the weave shows. One thin figure stands small and off-centre near the bottom, drawn in a few black lines, with an enormous open space above it.Example

Bare Bone

Example, not a real painting

A wide painting packed edge to edge with a crowd of every skin tone, faces lifted and hands raised, each person only a few brush marks. The upper third opens into gold and white light with nothing drawn in it.Example

Every Language

Example, not a real painting

Two large open hands, palms up and empty, cropped so they fill the whole canvas and the wrists run off the bottom edge. Heavy ochre and olive over deep cobalt, thick black contour around every finger.Example

I Own Nothing

Example, not a real painting

No figures at all. A column of blue-white fire rising through a dark charcoal field, built from thick vertical strokes of cobalt and cyan, hottest and palest at the centre. No warm colour anywhere.Example

The Refining Fire

Example, not a real painting