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 ..