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.
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.
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