The Passing Calm

Bluethumb Top Selling Artist

The Passing Calm by Tania Chanter.
The Passing Calm, storm-filled clouds gather and drift across a shifting sky, holding a quiet weight above the soft expanse of blue water below. There’s a gentle tension between movement and stillness, as if the weather is slowly exhaling after something just passed through.
The atmosphere feels layered rather than loud. The clouds carry depth and mood, while the water beneath offers a grounding calm, creating a balance that feels both unsettled and peaceful at the same time. It sits in that in-between space where change is happening, but nothing is rushed.
As a medium-sized framed piece, it has enough presence to anchor a wall without overwhelming it. It works beautifully in living spaces, bedrooms, or a hallway where it can be seen from a distance and then rewarded up close with its softer shifts in tone and texture.

- Textured.
- One of a kind original painting.
- Framed in Black. This painting is on stretched artist quality canvas and Framed in a solid timber black floating frame and ready to hang.
- All of Tania's original artwork are signed and named on the back.
- Certificate of Authenticity.

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Top 10 Selling Bluethumb Artist - 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021

Tania Chanter is an abstract landscape artist based in the Yarra Valley, Victoria. Her work is driven by intuition, a deep sensitivity to colour, and a lifelong fascination with natural patterns. Drawing inspiration from the land, water, sky, and the quiet forces that shape them, Tania creates paintings that reflect both the physical landscape and the emotional response it evokes.
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Her process is instinctive and immersive. Each piece evolves through layered mark making, texture, and colour, guided by feeling rather than a fixed plan. Paintings are worked and reworked until they reach a point of balance and calm, when the surface feels resolved and true. This intuitive approach ensures that every artwork is a one of a kind original, carrying its own rhythm, depth, and presence.
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Before dedicating herself fully to painting, Tania spent over a decade working creatively in advertising at The Age newspaper, later expanding into voice over work, media presentation, and directing a graphic design studio. This background brings a strong sense of composition, professionalism, and visual confidence to her fine art practice. Painting emerged unexpectedly during creative time spent with her children, and quickly became the most honest and fulfilling expression of her creativity.
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Tania’s original artworks are held in private and corporate collections across Australia and internationally. Collectors are drawn to the emotional warmth, sense of movement, and quiet strength within her landscapes. Each piece is created with care and intention, offering buyers a meaningful, lasting connection to the natural world through original contemporary art.