Who am I?   

Hello, I’m Tysheona Singleton, a Tulsa-based artist and designer whose creative journey began long before I knew exactly where it would lead me.

Art has always been a part of my life. I started with traditional mediums, exploring drawing and painting before eventually moving into digital illustration and graphic design. Studying graphic design helped me develop a stronger understanding of color, composition, visual storytelling, and the many ways an idea can be communicated. Over time, however, I found myself being drawn back to where I started—painting.

Returning to traditional art has allowed me to reconnect with a more personal and intuitive side of my creativity. My current practice explores painting through acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, and natural materials such as sand. I’m especially interested in texture, movement, the human figure, and the relationship between the body and the natural world.

Much of my recent work explores Black femininity, identity, softness, strength, and emotional grounding. Nature has also become an important part of my visual language. Oceans, shorelines, flowers, and organic textures give me ways to think about growth, resilience, calm, unpredictability, and the complexity of simply being human.

As my practice continues to evolve, I’ve been experimenting with what I describe as abstract realism—bringing recognizable figures and environments together with abstraction, texture, and more intuitive forms. I’m interested in creating work that feels tactile and alive, where materials themselves become part of the story.

Recently, I’ve also begun sharing my work more publicly through exhibitions, art crawls, festivals, and local art events. Being able to put my paintings into the world, meet people who connect with them, and continue developing my voice has become an important part of this new chapter.

I’m still exploring, experimenting, and allowing my work to change with me. For me, being an artist isn’t about arriving at one final style. It’s about staying curious, following the ideas that keep pulling me forward, and creating work that feels increasingly like my own.