Tia Massih · Sydney

Your place,
painted from above.

Pools, tennis courts and gardens on canvas, framed with a border you'd find on a tile. Custom paintings, made to order.

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Tennis Court, an aerial painting of a pink tennis court with a floral tile border

Tennis Court · 48 × 72 in · acrylic on canvas · 1.5 in gallery wrap

Paint your own

Pick a scene. Pick your colours.

A rough idea of what yours could look like. Send it to Tia and she'll take it from there.

Scene
Ground
Water
Border

The work

Three lanes, one hand.

The aerial series is where the commissions live. The sacred work is where she started. The works on paper are where she plays.

Aerial series
Tennis Court, a pink court with green hedges inside a floral tile border, acrylic on canvas
Tennis Court48 × 72 in · acrylic
Aerial series
Pool, an aerial painting of a pool with cream tiles and a blue floral border
PoolAcrylic on canvas
Aerial series
Boats, small boats on thick blue impasto waves seen from above
BoatsImpasto · acrylic
On paper
Dancer, a belly dancer in hot pink and gold, pastel on black paper
DancerPastel on black
Sacred
Gethsemane, Christ resting on a rock under a shaft of light, pastel on paper
GethsemanePastel
Sacred
Tia's drawing of St Charbel projected onto the monastery wall during the light show
St CharbelLight show · 2025
Sacred
Painting of Christ carrying the cross
Matthew 11:28Easter 2026
On paper
Sparrows on a branch against gold marks, on grey paper
SparrowsOn paper
On paper
Three dragonflies over loose watercolour washes
DragonfliesWatercolour
On paper
Bees and lavender on grey paper
BeesOn paper
On paper
Monarch butterflies and zinnias with pink washes
MonarchsWatercolour

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Commission

How a piece gets made.

Every painting is quoted on its own. Size and detail set the price. There's no list, just a conversation.

1

Send the place

A few photos of your pool, court or garden, the room it'll hang in, and roughly how big you want it.

2

Get a sketch

Within a week you get a pencil sketch and a quote. Nothing is paid until you've said yes to the sketch.

3

Hang it

Three to four weeks on the canvas, then it's delivered in Sydney or shipped Australia wide.

About

Tia paints the places her family grew up around.

Saints and crosses first. Then a tennis court, then a pool, each one seen from above and wrapped in the kind of border you find on a Lebanese tile.

In 2025 a pencil drawing she made at the kitchen table was projected three storeys tall onto St Charbel's Monastery in Sydney for the light show. That's still the one she can't quite believe.

She works from Sydney and ships anywhere in Australia.

Tia's St Charbel drawing on the monastery wall

St Charbel's Monastery · light show 2025

Coming later

Clothing

The border, off the canvas.

The tile borders are becoming prints. Tees first. The one on the left updates with whatever you painted up top.

Want to know when it drops? Send "tee" on Instagram.

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