Icon painting is a mature art based on a profound understanding of the past but is, too, a complex art difficlt to capture in words since everything in it is expressed iconographically, in symbol, in artistic forms that invariably have a specific inner meaning. To be understood, the artist as well as the viewer needs a special understanding of linear design, composition, space, color, and light that have evolved over centuries. Tatiana Grant's art, distinguished by the finesse of its technique, bears the imprint of that traditional royal splendor. But even as she follows the traditions of the canon, she gives new meanings, new interpetations, to themes through subtle deviations. This is the art of nuance and it is central to being a great master. The viewer is given opportunity to discover remarkable purity and peace in her works.
She has discovered a whole new world of possibilities for painting which creates totally new perspectives, forms and volume, thus changing the proportions of a given structural interior space. The depth perspective in Tatiana Grant's ceiling paintings, the surprising effect of a landscape painted on blind windows, or a view of a suite of rooms on a closet door, visually transport the viewer into the illusory world of he mural she has created.
Indeed, Tatiana Grant's mural decoration can transform darkness into light; the hundrum into the exotic. It can lift the spirit of even the meanest room.
Her paintings on canvas, though full of passions, create a profound sense of supremacy of the mystery of life. They are also "windows into eternity", as well as her icons, Alleluia to Love, which she sings by each of her work.