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In the longing of preserving moments in time.

When she was stimulated as a child to draw people, London-based artist Tanya Ling could have never predicted that she would go on to becoming a renown fashion illustrator, “I never really planned to be a fashion illustrator.

It’s something that, almost like a thief in the night, came and happened.” Tanya mentions, “It was very unexpected, but I am really grateful for it”. Creating everything from her own ready-to-wear collection, larger-than-life-sized sculptures, to intimate portrait drawings, site-specific installations, prints, or digital assemblages, Ling has experimented with a vast array of mediums, and uses her quotidian environment to stimulate her practice.

Despite her extensive use of materials, her work is best known for her recurring line drawings, which are in fact a continual line in the views of the artist. Ling’s technique is one of assembling figure and form intuitively, with a conscio