Meet Virginia…

Golden Tiger Studio is the art studio of Virginia Upshaw — a painter, maker, experimenter, and firm believer that original art should feel alive.

I created Golden Tiger Studio as a way to share original artwork in a more accessible way.

I love artists. I follow a lot of them. I also know what it feels like to buy a small reprint of a painting you love and still feel like something is missing. Prints have their place, but there is something different about owning the real thing — the texture, the marks, the weird little decisions, the evidence that a human hand was there.

Artists create constantly. Experiments, studies, tests, one-offs, wild ideas, beautiful accidents — so much work lives in studios long after it’s made. Some of those pieces may not become part of a formal collection, but they still have life in them. They still belong somewhere.

That’s where Golden Tiger Studio comes in.

I want to keep creating, keep experimenting, and keep putting original pieces into the world at reasonable prices. If something I make speaks to you, you can own the actual piece — not a copy, not a clone, not a polished-to-death reproduction.

The world is moving fast and getting more digital by the minute. This is my small way of keeping things analog, tactile, imperfect, and made by hand.