Roman citizen of Emona, Emonec, is gilded bronze statue dating back to the beginning of the 2nd century depicting a wealthy man wearing folded toga. The statue was part of sepulchral monument from the burial ground in front of the northern gate of Emona, now Ljubljana. The replica of Emonec is today located in Zvezda Park, near the Congress Square. The original is in the Slovenian National Museum.
It’s been one of those mornings, when light is bright and garden is still calm, like enveloped in the mist of the night just passed and the blossoms of colorful flowers appear after the dark of the night to celebrate the day. Complete solitude is needed to enter the code of color world, walking down the garden feels like entering trough portals of eternal beauty. Picking flowers for a bouquet is a meditative task and as I’ve been picking the first peonies of the season I’ve remembered how happy I’ve been planting these pale pink peonies and how long have I waited before thy started to blossom. Their sweet scent of early summer each June gives me joy and makes me want to paint them in all their gorgeous beauty, so fragile and short lived, but year after year appearing in the corner of the garden, near a small Japanese maple.
Tamara Jare artwork is featured in ”Best of 2021: Mid-Year Report: Our expert curators share their favorite artworks produced by emerging artists in the first half of the year.” Rebecca Wilson Chief Curator and VP, Art Advisory, Saatchi Art has curated a collection of 140 artworks, selected from more than 1.4 M original artworks created by 94K emerging artists from over than 100 countries all over the world than are currently available at Saatchi Art.
Brushes and Flowers with Red Basket Painting is just a small vignette from my studio table. I’ve been working on some paintings, as usually I’ve put a handful of brushes in an old jug to have them ready. As I cannot live without flowers there have been some fresh twigs full of white blossoms, just in case I’d paint them. An old ceramic basket where I keep some important unimportant items I love has, who knows how, found it’s way to be just near the jug with flowers. Working on a recent canvas I’ve wanted to reach for a brush as I’ve suddenly noticed this still life just in front of me, it’s been so perfectly real I knew I’ve wanted to paint it. In a moment the wet canvas on the easel has been changed with a new one and I’ve hurried to catch this simple vignette reminding me that each day consists of at least some magical moments, moments when we can see trough the light of everyday to embrace a small particle of eternity……
Brushes, white flowers and a red basket contemporary still life Tamara Jare original painting oil on canvas
Painting apple tree has been my wish for a while. There is a small apple tree just under my window, growing at the edge of the forest. It is a small one, not very young, growing somewhat under an angle trying to reach the sun perhaps. Not much of a tree really , it is even hard to spot it among some other smaller trees at the edge of the forest. Until the spring comes. Each year again the spring covers this little tree in hundreds of white, slightly pinkish blossoms, making it to appear almost as a smaller cloud of snowflakes dancing among early green leaves of the near by birch and spruce trees….
It is funny as I’ve been admiring this tree for so many springs but haven’t got any particular idea how to paint it. Until this time, as I was sitting instead of standing by the same window and as I’ve looked outside I’ve spotted the tree, this time under a different perspective. Which was that trigger that has made me see the tree as a painting to be…..
Spring trees in bloom have that symbolical meaning of rebirth, as they are born into each spring anew. And they also have a certain glow of delicate blossoms, almost illuminating the surroundings and that that gives hope….
Daffodils are among the first spring flowers in our garden. Their yellow and white blossoms seem as a sort of floral stars, or little suns perhaps, reflecting the strong sunlight of early spring. As this year unusual April snow was predicted, I picked a bouquet of daffodils, to save at least some of them. Indeed next morning snow came, turning the landscape back to winter, silhouettes of near by hills appeared like cut from white paper against the bright blue sky with many clouds bringing even more snow. Daffodils bouquet in green glass vase by the window reflected all those shades of the late April snow. Flower petals appeared almost as made from glassine paper, catching the scarce warmth from the morning sun rays into their translucent shapes. What an abundance of the light caught in the shades of the daffodil’s yellows and whites against the sharp colors of the landscape! Just a feast to paint!
Happy to announce my painting Rainy Day Bouquet is featured in the Saatchi Art New This Week Collection! Discover art you love from a collection of new artworks handpicked by Saatchi Art Chief Curator Rebecca Wilson! Discover the collection here, enjoy!
Rainy Day Bouquet, Tamara Jare, oil on canvas, 2019
NFT art has become a hype recently. There might be concerns about a tulip mania phenomena threatening the bubble inevitably pops one day. Yet the pandemic has pushed the margins of digitalization to the extent that one could not have imagined a year ago. Interesting enough, the technology has been accessible for a while yet the change of the perspective has been needed to push us to virtual places, from zoom classrooms to virtual art shows, just to begin with. Understanding the concept of NFT art world is a challenge, mostly as the basic concept of the art collecting has been redefined. I’ve been asked why anyone would buy something that is just a digital picture? Yet just the digitalization has offered the concepts of scarcity and the proof of authenticity. Which might be a big game changer. Today it is impossible to track the digital reproductions of any publicly posted picture which is a painful reality for an artist. Like I’ve been shocked to find out a person on the other side of the globe is selling vases with reproductions of my art on them, no permission or consent asked.
Anyhow, I’ve found the concept appealing, as an early adopter I’ve decided to give it a try. Love the learning process, love the possibilities new technologies offer. And, above all, love painting. So here it comes, my very first NFT, Ostia Antica Ruins, freshly minted to enter the world of future.
I’ve chosen my Ostia Antica Ruins Rome painting, just to remember the world is changing rapidly, but besides ruins art is the one to stay forever.
With a big wish, that there really will be place for true art in the future.
My first NFT art collection ”Tamara Jare Art” is accessible here
Tamara Jare: Rome Ostia Antica Curated Art Collection
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