A curation by Natalie Slater, Art Agent at Snap Collective - ‘Tender Years’ is a curation of figurative painters exploring the quiet, unpolished space of adolescence — that in-between state where curiosity meets self-awareness. Each work captures a moment of stillness: a boy squinting into sunlight, a child crouched in concentration, a figure turned away, absorbed in thought. The gestures are small but loaded — fragments of discovery, distance, and interiority. There’s no nostalgia here. The tones are soft, but the gaze is sharp. These paintings look at childhood not as purity, but as process — where identity begins to take shape, and innocence learns its edges.