Tiffani Erdmanczyk was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1981. She received her BA in Architecture from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2004. While in architecture school she fell in love with watercolor as a way of representing her designs and has been painting with watercolor ever since. Tiffani has exhibited in North Carolina, Washington and Colorado including shows at Port Angeles Fine Art Center in Port Angeles Washington, Plasteel Frames and Gallery in Seattle, The Center for the Arts Evergreen, and SeeSaw Gallery in Englewood. Tiffani lives and works in Lakewood, Colorado. “I enjoy creating paintings that have a sense of texture to them. Watercolor has taught me focus and patience and is a form of meditation that helps me cope with circumstances beyond my control. When working with water, one must give up a certain level of authority and appreciate the effects of chance. Through practice and experimentation, colors and their relationship to one another are carefully chosen. When I discover exciting color combinations from my daily interactions with nature and the built environment, I recreate them in my palette and let their unique personalities guide my paintings compositionally. The time spent creating my paintings, composing their colors, and weaving the layers of textures into them has brought light back into a life that I once thought would be destined for darkness.”