Tamara is an abstract artist, working primarily in mixed media. Her paintings are bold, colourful and full of texture and details. She has experimented with art since she was a child, and as an adult she has taken a wide variety of art courses. Her unique style blends playful creativity and experimentation with learned techniques. Tamara has shown a lot over the years, becoming a full time artist in 2019.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I like to work in collections and the main one that has captured my attention right now deals with creation, destruction and re-creation involving the give and take of letting go of control and taking control through a number of different steps. I create five large paintings using a chosen palette, photograph details from them and then I turn the paintings face down and cut them into strips of varying widths. The 90 or so resulting strips are then mixed together and reassembled into new, colourful assemblages.
My life experiences, both wonderful and difficult, inform my perspective. I am inspired by nature with its abundance of colours, textures and forms; these details emerge in abstract through the many layers that build upon each other as I create my paintings. I use art as a process to search for peace, happiness and healing within myself. My goal as an artist is to create art that provides a visual escape for my viewers – a place to get happily lost in the details.