Toni Messiter
Within a framework of Old Master’s Portraits, Toni Messiter’s paintings underscore the complexity of familial relationships by using dolls as the protagonists. In Messiter’s art, you can find themes of nurturing, love, rivalry, jealousy and coercion, and perhaps more.
Toni Messiter’s Art
Encountering Toni Messiter's paintings is to get caught up in a world of fact and fiction, past and present, dark and light. Using dolls as her subjects, Messiter plays with them as alter egos as she builds a dialogue around them.
About Toni Messiter
If the planets are in alignment there are times you get to do the things you want. For me that happened when I rented a studio space where I was able to fully discover the joy of painting.