Darril Tighe’s watercolors explore abstraction as a means for expressing a range of emotions through color, layering of washes and choices about composition. Tighe’s complex color combinations suggest a quality of translucence and evoke a state of reverie and reflection, through which the viewer is momentarily transported, and then returns, enriched.

Darril Tighe is recently retired after 20 years of service at the University of California, most recently with the Department of History at UC Berkeley. She has an MFA from Claremont University and is now pursuing her career as a visual artist full time. For more information, visit the artist’s website.

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