Freda Tan is a Toronto-based painter who works primarily with oil paints. Her work visualizes flux sentience – the understanding that all matter, awareness, and being exist in a perpetual state of becoming. Her paintings capture charged moments of elemental transition in ways that are at once organic and abstracted. Working with a soft handling of paint, her brushwork allows forms to breathe into one another, letting light and gestural lines carry energy across the surface. Encountering her paintings, viewers are invited to sense the vibrating energy of matter in motion and to feel the openness of possibility within every moment of becoming. Freda holds an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from University of Toronto and is completing her Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University. She was the recipient of 2023/2024 Sandra Henderson Scholarship in Drawing & Painting from Women's Art Association of Canada. Her work has been shown and held in private collections across Canada.