Collection: Tanden Launder

“ANYONE WHO LIVES WITHIN THEIR MEANS SUFFERS FROM A LACK OF IMAGINATION”

Tanden is a multi-medium artist hailing from North Idaho. His career as a contemporary western artist revolves around creative visual biographies of the iconic west and its heroes. Tanden's true creative roots come from having no TV growing up, having to literally make his own fun, a nicely supplied art room and reading plenty of books helped spark the imagination. Ones on the likes of Buffalo Bill, Amelia Earhart, John Dillinger, Sitting Bull and the list goes on. 

The key to Tanden's art is the layers, he focuses on what he calls "the draw", the part of the artwork that captures you at first glance and draws you nearer as you pick up on more and more detail the closer you muse. You will end up a foot away reading some 1930's newspaper article or studying the wide contrast of mediums that interchange. The intention is to have a piece of art that rests easily in a space and reveals itself the more time you spend with it, you could say a visual biography is his target goal.