Artist Tanya Ling, a Former Louis Vuitton, Fendi Illustrator, Turns to the Abstract With Latest Exhibition

Tanya Ling’s lines are running wild. The long, slim, twisting lines that once depicted Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Stefano Pilati-clad ladies — and even shaped themselves into a Fendi Peekaboo bag — now flow into abstract oil paintings, linear drawings and sculptures made from salt dough and grouting. Ling, who for decades worked as a fashion illustrator for the big fashion and beauty houses, has turned from figurative, commercial work to abstract painting and sculpture, with her latest work on show in a converted Victorian stable block at Lyndsey Ingram in Mayfair. “Incitatus,” which runs until March 14, springs from Ling’s lifelong love of horses, and is hot, blurry and breathless. It could not be farther from the wide-eyed, statuesque beauties that Ling once conjured for the big brands. In an interview at the show space, Ling says she was eager to move from illustration to painting and from figurative to abstract work. She has been making the shift over the past decade, and says it feels right. New works by Tanya Ling on show until March 14 at Lyndsey Ingram in London. The space is a former stable block in Mayfair. “In the past, I was always working with fashion, art and creative directors

Follow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.

from WWDRecent Stories https://ift.tt/H2s9gGc