Arrive in the room
Watch how people, light, music, and movement occupy the space.
In motion / Process
Watch the painting decide what it wants to be.
Color changes. Texture gathers. A figure moves forward, recedes, and returns. The finished work is only one frame in a much longer process.
In her own words
“I paint for fun and joy.”
Toni’s public studio reels are direct, funny, reflective, and willing to show uncertainty. The process is not polished away; it is part of the work’s meaning.
Follow the process on InstagramLive scene painting
A record of the feeling—not a photograph of it.
Respond in real time
Build the composition while the gathering continues to change around it.
Leave with an artifact
Carry one singular visual memory of that night into the world.
Conversation
Art as a form of play.
Playjacent interviewed Toni about process, play, and the experiences that become source material for her paintings.
View the interview post