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.
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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