Tamara Campbell
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.
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.
$390.00
Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on canvas mounted on wood panel.
18x18"
This assemblage contains 8 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were done on canvas. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish. For this piece the strips were cut to a length so that they were surrounded by an area of white.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
The colours chosen for those original 5 paintings were inspired by a 9 day canoe trip I took last summer down the French River and into Georgian Bay. The water, the sky, the flowers that were blooming, the trees and the rocks - that is what I was thinking about when I chose the colours for these paintings and while I was painting the 5 large pieces that I then cut into strips to create this collection.
$1,350.00
Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on canvas mounted on wood panel.
36x30"
The Wind is Storming up the Bluffs is my visual interpretation of a poem - see at the end of this description.
This assemblage contains 20 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were painted on canvas. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish. For this piece the strips were cut to a length so that they were surrounded by an area of white and I offset the strips to heighten the energy in the painting.
Woman Walking with Dogs
by Linda Goulais
the grey morn of another day
in a warmly lit tea room
on a rough English coast.
Outside in the bleak,
past the tea cups
and the smeared glass,
a woman is walking
along the edge under a dark sky
grey dogs all around her.
The wind is storming up the bluffs
from the sea,
a low whelping howl,
and the wind is everything.
She leans into it
says a prayer perhaps.
Her hair is wild
tentacled, salt-flaked, alive.
She is, in the sea-smudged light,
both improbable and astonishing.
The dogs, all legs and flattened fur
circle close, move off
circle close again
protecting her, or at least
re-affirming each other —
the huddled mass
in the unforgiving wind
drifting slowly down the bluff
to the point.
$175.00
Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.
12x12"
This assemblage contains 11 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were done on 300 lb watercolour paper. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This piece is one of 4 that were made in memory of a dear friend's very special horse. There are only 4 pieces that I made from the 6 paintings in this family. The strips are of differing lengths and are off-set from each other to give the piece more energy, more freedom.
$175.00
Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.
12x12"
This assemblage is composed of 9 strips of varying widths from 5 different paintings that were painted on 300lb watercolour paper. The strips were mounted on a painted gallery depth birch wood panel using acrylic medium and the piece was finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family. They reminded me of fantastical summertime marshlands filled with magic.
$175.00
Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.
12x12"
This assemblage is composed of 9 strips of varying widths from 5 different paintings that were painted on 300lb watercolour paper. The strips were mounted on a painted gallery depth birch wood panel using acrylic medium and the piece was finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
This set of paintings reminded me of wild ocean beaches.
$175.00
Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.
12x12"
This assemblage contains 11 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were done on 300 lb watercolour paper. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
This colour collection is wild and bold and makes me think of dancing and the freedom one feels while dancing. It was with this colour family that I created my first triptych consisting of three 20x30 panels, which sold this spring.
$175.00
Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.
12x12"
This assemblage contains 10 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were done on 300 lb watercolour paper. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
This colour family makes me think of a fanciful trip into outer space.
$260.00
Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.
18x12"
This assemblage is composed of 12 strips of varying widths from 5 different paintings that were painted on 300lb watercolour paper. The strips were mounted on a painted gallery depth birch wood panel using acrylic medium and the piece was finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
This set of paintings reminded me of wild ocean beaches.
$800.00
Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.
36x18"
This assemblage is composed of 24 strips of varying widths from 5 different paintings that were painted on 300lb watercolour paper. The strips were mounted on a painted gallery depth birch wood panel using acrylic medium and the piece was finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
This set of paintings reminded me of wild ocean beaches.
$700.00
Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.
24x24"
This assemblage is composed of 16 strips of varying widths from 5 different paintings that were painted on 300lb watercolour paper. The strips were mounted on a painted gallery depth birch wood panel using acrylic medium and the piece was finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
This set of paintings reminded me of wild ocean beaches.
$950.00
Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on canvas mounted on wood panel.
20x36"
This assemblage contains 81 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were done on canvas. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
The colours chosen for those original 5 paintings were inspired by a 9 day canoe trip I took last summer down the French River and into Georgian Bay. The water, the sky, the flowers that were blooming, the trees and the rocks - that is what I was thinking about when I chose the colours for these paintings and while I was painting the 5 large pieces that I then cut into strips to create this collection.
This piece is actually a triptych consisting of three 6x36 panels, but I mounted them to a backboard to make it easier to hang - trying to keep three 6x36 panels straight would have been frustrating!
$235.00
Charcoal, pencils, acrylic, and inks on watercolour paper mounted on wood panel.
14x14"
This assemblage contains 10 strips of varying widths from 5 different mixed media paintings that were done on 300 lb watercolour paper. The strips are mounted on gallery depth birch wood panels using acrylic medium and finished with artist grade satin varnish.
This is one of over 10 different pieces that I created with the 90 strips that resulted from the 5 paintings in this colour family.
This colour family makes me think of a fanciful trip into outer space.