"To enter is to cross the threshold, to pass through the doorway; a metaphor for change and transition from moment to moment, from one lifetime to another.

It is during those moments in our own doorways that we experience our deepest emotions; moments of anxiety and relief, of hope and despair, of joy and of intense loss.

Enter is an exploration of that moment when you stand on the threshold, in the doorway, between knowing and unknowing, between past and future. A life changing moment, an intangible transient moment that we all recognise. A moment after which our life may never be the same again.

This series invokes an understanding of these deeper moments of joy, sorrow, mystery and hope. To give a sense of that elusive but familiar presence which reminds us that the limit of this present life is not death".
-Tina Frantzen


Tina’s emotive new exhibition Enter is the latest in a long series of works that employ entrances and passageways as a means of expressing absence, loss, hope and the unknown. Using repetition and installation style presentation, she intensifies her imagery and themes both on and off the canvas. Her meditations become both philosophical and deeply personal, offered in rich layers of expressive paintwork.