oil on linen - Tamara Jare

June bouquet and a lemon

Jun 19, 2020

June bouquet and a lemon, oil on linen painting, 55 x 55 cm (21.6 x 21.6 inches)

Ah, all that abundance of the colors of the flowers of June! Take the roses, to start with: cadmium red, pale pink, magenta, then all the yellows of the common bird’s- foot trefoil, whites of queen Anne’s lace, purple comfrey, green grasses! Vertigo of a bold palette, trembling in the early summer sunlight. Colors that promise a long summer to come……

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. Pablo Picasso

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. Vincent van Gogh

I always notice flowers. Andy Warhol

june bouquet and a lemon Tamara Jare original oil on linenpainting of red roses, white queen anne's lace anf yellow flowers in a round vase on a green table contemporary art picture wall art — June bouquet and a lemon, oil on linen, 2020

Variation in blue

Jun 14, 2020

Variation in blue is a still life I’ve painted back in 2018. This small format oil on linen is still dear to my heart.

Painting a still life by me usually starts with a small walk around my garden. It is a sort of meditation, preparation for the painting process. Which flowers would I pick depends on the mood of the moment. And, obviously, it depends on the time of the year in the garden. Spring is always joyous, bringing first colors to the nature, then comes the summer with all the richness of the blossoming plants, fall again has it’s own colors, just as beautiful.

But at that time, when I wanted to pick at least something from the garden to paint, there was November. And not much around the garden to pick For at that late autumn time garden is usually still, frozen on time, waiting for first snow to come on it’s cold mornings.

So instead, I took some chrysanthemums from the bouquet in our living room. Just some white and blue blossoms for the small vase. And painted them immediately, capturing those blue and white hues, trying to catch light of that November morning before the snow fell to our garden…….

blue and white chrysanthemumums in vhite vase oil painting tamara jare art — variation in blue tamara jare painting

May bouquet

May 27, 2020

May bouquet, painted obviously in May, in the spring of 2020, that has changed so profoundly the world we know. Yet, no matter what, the spring does come each year.

Each year makes me particularly happy to see our old garden phyladelphus is starting to bloom. Sweet scent of hundreds white little stars wraps up the garden, sun is getting warmer and in a couple of days first purple iris-es open, usually accompanied by the roses.

I guess each gardener will recognize that feeling one gets just after picking the fresh flowers to make a bouquet. Bringing all those flowers inside, one needs to find a vase big enough to display all the colors just brought in. And as you put the bouquet on the table to watch the flowers closely, even, so to say, with an inner eye, then you can see the spring avakening, bursting and flowering after a long winter. Looking closer it seems almost like flowers are dancing, moving around each other, just to reach sky and to blossom into the spring. It is a sort of vertigo like feeling. Remembering when the last spring took part one gets almost absorbed into all the colors and patterns of nature bursting into spring again.

So here it is, my May bouquet. Please, have a close look at the flowers from my garden and feel the vertigo of all the colors of a new spring……