Self Portrait with Hrastovlje Dance Macabre
Self Portrait with Hrastovlje Dance Macabre after Self-portrait in a Straw Hat by Elisabeth Vignée Le run, Tamara Jare, oil on canvas, 2024
Self Portrait with Hrastovlje Dance Macabre after Self-portrait in a Straw Hat by Elisabeth Vignée Le run, 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.
3 ONIONS CANVAS
Painting this still life I wanted to capture those pinkish shades of onions, almost silky yet fragile, in a way mirroring the surrounding light so beautifully. Pairing three onions with an old white porcelain jug gave me the possibility to dive into an almost Marandi like atmosphere. But had to add color, of course!! Just to embrace the subjects and to build different planes of perception: what is near, what is distant, what is before and what is after, what is gone and what is coming? I leave this questions to the spectator……
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