Flowering Trees
Flowering Trees, Tamara Jare, oil on canvas, 2024
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Flowering Trees, Tamara Jare, oil on canvas, 2024
From My Studio, Tamara Jare. oil on canvas, 2024
Still Life from my Studio is my new canvas. It has been a rather dark cloudy morning, so I have decided to set up this cheerful still life just to bring some colors to my studio. Some red tomatoes, three onions, a pomegranate, a pear and an orange, and a blue glass vase contrasting the empty gilded wooden frame. And my brushes in a Japanese vase with some green decor. Which has this time interested me more than the color scheme has been the empty space. The equilibrium between what has been told and what holds the composition in the space. The eternal juxtaposition between the white color and all the colors of the day.
Still Life with Violet and Lemon is my new painting, oil on canvas. Love the dark violet hues of the flower, reflecting blues from the sky and reddish stems with dark green leaves.S ky was blue and vibrant colors trembled as I set the still life to paint…..
Time of Peonies, oil on canvas, 2021
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.
Daffodils Bouquet in Times of April Snow, oil on canvas, 2021
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!
New This Week curated Saatchi Art collection
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!
Anemones, still life painting after George Leslie Hunter’s ‘Still Life of Anemones with Striped Wallpaper’ , oil on canvas, 2021
I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.
Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And ’tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
The birds around me hopped and played,
Their thoughts I cannot measure:—
But the least motion which they made
It seemed a thrill of pleasure.
The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.
If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature’s holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?
Source: The Longman Anthology of Poetry (Pearson, 2006) from Poetry foundation
Small format Still life with a plant and a porcelain figurine that I’ve made recently is particularly dear to me.
It might quite well be a sort of a prejudice, but thinking about the next painting on a bigger canvas for me things are clear in advance. I usually do make some sketches, I know what I am going to paint, I have certain level of respect towards a bigger canvas, so to say.
And then on other hand, process of painting a small canvas is usually quite the opposite one. Like sometimes just in the middle of the work in my studio I might notice an interesting colorful detail, a small scene, a little accent. In a hurry, just to not let it go with the fading light of the day, I would take a small format canvas to capture the scene immediately. Like this one, working on the other still life (see the previous post to notice the same table cloth ) I noticed the beauty of a small plant on my window. I was attracted by the purples and reds of the plant in a small terracotta container. I’ve put the porcelain figurine near the plant, and it was there, just all the colors I wanted to have. The additional task has been to catch the velvet like texture of the leaves contrasting all the strong accents. So this small format has turned to a small caption of a moment from the studio and a sort of a visual diary. Just as I like it!
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