Tamara is an abstract artist, working primarily in mixed media. Her paintings are bold, colourful and full of details. She is inspired by nature with its abundance of colours, textures and forms; these details emerge through the many layers that build upon each other as she creates her paintings.
She likes to work in collections and the main one that has captured her 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. She creates five large paintings using a chosen palette, photographs details from them and then she turns the paintings face down and cuts them into strips of varying widths. The 90 or so resulting strips from the paintings are then mixed together and reassembled into new, colourful assemblages. She call this series “The Purpose of Paper”.
Another of her collections explores imaginary spaces and spirits in nature and are very organic and dreamy. They suggest places in nature, but those spaces are not quite of this world.
Tamara 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.
Her life experiences, both wonderful and difficult, inform her perspective. She uses art as a process to search for peace, happiness and healing within herself. Tamara’s goal as an artist is to create art that provides a visual escape for her viewers – a place to get happily lost in the details.
She shares her creative process and art on her Instagram profile and Facebook art page.

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