Capri Villa San Michele
“My home shall be open for the sun and the wind and the voices of the sea- like a Greek temple – and light, light, light everywhere!” Axel Munthe
Capri Villa San Michele, Tamara Jare, oil on canvas, 2021
Time of Peonies, oil on canvas, 2021
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.
White Flowers in a Red Jug
Best of 2021
Best of 2021
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.
Contemporary still life Rainy Bouquet is presented in the collection that can be seen here.
Artwork price
Artwork price
As mentioned before, I had a wonderful privilege of not only having the most noble hearted, intelligent and warm person possible as my mother, but also having a possibility to grow up in an art studio, learning from one of the best artists of her generation, my mother. It was childhood filled with art. My first books were art monographs. Since the early age I was encouraged to explore the world of literature, painting, sculpture, music. I still remember artists, intellectuals visiting our home, having debates about art. Already as a young girl I saw almost all art exhibition openings in the town. And am grateful for that. But there is also something else I’ve seen. I’ve seen too many quasy friends of my mother taking her artworks home but forgetting to pay. Or wearing Gucci’s and claiming they need the already friendly price of the painting to be lowered. Or “borrowing “art just for an occasion and forgetting to bring it back. Or taking it for granted to get a portrait even before starting to write an article, art criticism or arrange an exhibit. But even so couldn’t imagine which happened today! Acclaimed art critic came today, almost ten years after my late mother’s death, to our home, to tell us he would like to have my mums artwork as supposedly she once said she might consider giving him a painting for an article, which of course has never been written. COMPLETELY IN SCHOCK all I can say now is, in name of my late mother, in my personal name, IN NAME OF ALL THE ARTISTS : TO MAKE AN ARTWORK ONE NEEDS TALENT, TIME, HARD WORK, PERSEVERATION, DETERMINATION, VISION, CREATIVITY, NOT TO MENTION ART STUDIO AND ART MATETIALS HAVE TO BE PAID. THEREFORE ONLY PRIMITIVE IGNORANTS CAN ASSUME IT IS NORMAL OR SELF UNDERSTANDABLE TO GET ARTWORKS FOR NOTHING!!! THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING THIS SIMPLE FACT!!!!
Still life with a creamer
Sketch for ostia antica painting
Sketch for Ostia Antica painting, done in quick lines, using some ballpoint pens, pencil, highlighters and colored pencils.
Always, as soon as I get the idea about the new canvas I want to paint, I make a quick sketch. The purpose of sketching at this point isn’t making a correct documentary drawing any more. For the proportions, materials, light, atmosphere, color scheme, basically all I have to know, has already been investigated and has become clear by now. No secret I sometimes need a plenty of time to arrive to that exact point of the painting process. Yet I always make this final quick sketch just before I start my work on the canvas, just to have some reference points for the further work. As a matter of fact at this stage I always have the entire painting in my mind, together with the whole color scheme. And from here on even picking the oil color tubes works as part of the painting process, the chosen colors go to the palette immediately. So from that point of view I even wouldn’t need a sketch. But as the unpredictable event may interrupt my working process, like a single phone call, so I need to have a sketch. Not to remember what the painting should look like, but just as a sort of a ticket back to my painting planet…..
Artichokes
Artichokes, oil on canvas, 2019
This canvas was made after a photo of mine, taken the same year. It was spring, I remember, as I visited Udine with my husband. I can still see the bright day it was as we crossed the market in the old town. Always attracted by beautifully arranged vegetables, fruits, I was taking some pics. As I saw these artichokes I got stuck by the gorgeous colors. How widely had someone put them on display on the bright electric blue vinyl cloth, just to accentuate the herbaceous greens and pinks of the first artichokes of the season!
Still life with three mandarins and a jug
Still Life with Three Mandarins and a Jug, Contemporary still life, oil on canvas