White Flowers in a Red Jug
Artist’s book
Artist’s book I’ve named Venetian Gardens
Tamara Jare original watercolor paintings on paper
I’ve painted 45 imaginary Venetian gardens, an artist’s book with abstract landscapes, a sort of archetype memory maps of the Venetian gardens. Venice has some beautiful gardens, but it is quite difficult to visit them. I’ve always dreamed about seeing them all, but have actually seen just two of them, the dodge garden and the garden at the palazzo Leoni , namely Peggy Guggenheim museum. Yet I have a memory of a ride with vaporetto, passing some high brick walls with exotic trees behind them and imagining the gardens that might be there….
I’ve painted a book to bring the viewer to those fictive gardens of mine, to stroll among the colors and patterns I’ve built in my imagination. I wanted to make each page a new and different experience and it was quite hard to work on keeping that tension from the page to the page. So far I am happy with the book, turning it’s pages really feels like walking down the gardens in Venetian lagoon, entering the own inner world and trying to break the code of the meditative language of colors, patterns, lines, rhythm ..
Working on new art book
Still life with three mandarins and a jug
Landscape with trees, watercolour on paper
Forest path oil on canvas
Forest path oil on canvas abstract landscape was painted this summer. It feels strange to me how long it took me to paint it. I basically knew what I wanted to make. This picture of the forest path near my home is in my head since I can remember. We used to walk it with my late mother, with my family, with my dog, as kids we used to play there. As I close my eyes I can see this path….I painted this canvas ”from inside”, relying on the photo I made just for certain details. But otherwise the Forest path oil on canvas painting was growing by itself, once started I couldn’t end, it was like all years of memories guiding my brush…..I was only concentrated to pick the right colors, to make the correct composition….
Garden with blue flowers
Garden painting series, work in progress
Garden painting series, work in progress, is on my drawing desk right now, as Garden has been my inspiration since I remember. All the colors, smell of the flowers, contact with soil, way to immerse in nature, to escape daily life in a way, just to be part of it in its most profound way. My new painting series works on capturing all those elementary senzations from the garden. When all the colors and hues overtake over senses, when there are only fragrance from the flower bed and birds singing left. When the smell of the soil fills the air and sun colors all the greens even greener. When garden beds fill the horizon and everything seems possible. When the perception of the entire garden shrinks in its most fundamental elements, when colors, lines and textures left play with the time of memories from the future….
Garden colors Tamara Jare photography
