Edit Tenyi 'Morning Silence' Print Available

Artist: Edit Tenyi
Title: Morning Silence
Medium: Screen Print on Canvas
Size: 13.6 x 19.7 Inches
Edition: UNIQUE
Price: $300

Edit Tényi was born in 1976 in Novi Bečej, a quiet town in the Vojvodina province of northern Serbia, and her art carries the open skies and fertile flatlands of that region into every canvas. Working from a studio filled with natural light, she begins each painting by laying down translucent fields of acrylic, allowing the tone of the linen to shine through like weathered plaster. Over these atmospheric bases she builds slow, delicate layers of oil, coaxing forward still life objects, distant horizons and solitary female figures that seem to breathe rather than pose.

Her palette leans toward sunlit ochres, muted olives and the occasional burst of cobalt, colours she mixes directly on the surface with a soft bristle brush to keep edges tender and alive. The result is a body of work that feels both intimate and expansive, where a single pear on a windowsill can suggest the promise of an entire harvest, and a turned back can hint at stories beyond the frame.

Edit exhibits widely across Europe and maintains a growing presence in the United States through Saatchi Art, where collectors praise the emotional quiet that radiates from each piece. When she is not painting, she teaches drawing to local children, believing that the act of seeing must be shared if it is to stay honest. In this way her canvases become quiet conversations between memory, place and the simple pleasure of looking, offering viewers a moment of calm reflection in an increasingly hurried world.