“I try not to think but to respond with immediacy and speed,”
Francine Tint is a New York-based painter whose career spans over five decades. Known for her powerful commitment to abstraction, Tint creates works that combine bold, intuitive gesture with a distinctive and often unexpected sense of colour. Ranging in scale from intimate compositions to monumental canvases nearly 20 feet in width, her paintings channel an immediate and emotionally resonant energy through sweeping, layered brushwork, at times lyrical and fluid, at others raw and rapid.
Rooted in the legacy of Abstract Expressionism and Colour Field painting, Tint’s practice is shaped by a deep engagement with art history. While she draws inspiration from the New York School, her visual language is also informed by artists such as J.M.W. Turner, Édouard Manet and Francisco Goya; the chromatic distortions of Mannerist painters like Jacopo Pontormo; the fluidity of Asian brush painting; and the primal symbolism of Paleolithic cave art. These diverse references reflect her longstanding interest in painting as a direct extension of the human gesture, what she describes as “the now.”