Tania Skeaping’s work is about shared spaces.  She grew up in rural England and was aware of sharing the land with other species of flora and fauna.   Having freedom to roam she had encounters with birds, farm animals, dogs, cats, rats, insects and parasites, as they crossed each other's spaces.   She observed the constant ebbing and flowing of the seasons and growth as farmers re-drew their boundary hedges and the edges of sowed fields and then nature redrew hers.  This is a tiny echo of the much bigger processes going on worldwide.   

As a young adult, after a decade living in cities, she returned to rural living and saw anew the spaces and the things she had taken for granted as a child.   She is inquisitive about this relationship between the domestic, the tame and the wild, and about how other artists and craftspeople have described it in their work.  By placing the non-human in an unexpected position within a composition her intention is to flip the old adage ‘out of sight, out of mind’.  To extend that feeling of the unexpected she uses colour and brush work to create a sense of the uncanny or strange.