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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.
Tamara Jare Slovenian artist painting Rainy Day Bouquet modern oil on canvas artwork fine art
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Brushes and Flowers with Red Basket Painting is just a small vignette from my studio table. I’ve been working on some paintings, as usually I’ve put a handful of brushes in an old jug to have them ready. As I cannot live without flowers there have been some fresh twigs full of white blossoms, just in case I’d paint them. An old ceramic basket where I keep some important unimportant items I love has, who knows how, found it’s way to be just near the jug with flowers. Working on a recent canvas I’ve wanted to reach for a brush as I’ve suddenly noticed this still life just in front of me, it’s been so perfectly real I knew I’ve wanted to paint it. In a moment the wet canvas on the easel has been changed with a new one and I’ve hurried to catch this simple vignette reminding me that each day consists of at least some magical moments, moments when we can see trough the light of everyday to embrace a small particle of eternity……
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Brushes, white flowers and a red basket contemporary still life Tamara Jare original painting oil on canvas
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Painting apple tree has been my wish for a while. There is a small apple tree just under my window, growing at the edge of the forest. It is a small one, not very young, growing somewhat under an angle trying to reach the sun perhaps. Not much of a tree really , it is even hard to spot it among some other smaller trees at the edge of the forest. Until the spring comes. Each year again the spring covers this little tree in hundreds of white, slightly pinkish blossoms, making it to appear almost as a smaller cloud of snowflakes dancing among early green leaves of the near by birch and spruce trees….
It is funny as I’ve been admiring this tree for so many springs but haven’t got any particular idea how to paint it. Until this time, as I was sitting instead of standing by the same window and as I’ve looked outside I’ve spotted the tree, this time under a different perspective. Which was that trigger that has made me see the tree as a painting to be…..
Spring trees in bloom have that symbolical meaning of rebirth, as they are born into each spring anew. And they also have a certain glow of delicate blossoms, almost illuminating the surroundings and that that gives hope….
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Daffodils Bouquet in Times of April Snow, oil on canvas, 2021
Daffodils are among the first spring flowers in our garden. Their yellow and white blossoms seem as a sort of floral stars, or little suns perhaps, reflecting the strong sunlight of early spring. As this year unusual April snow was predicted, I picked a bouquet of daffodils, to save at least some of them. Indeed next morning snow came, turning the landscape back to winter, silhouettes of near by hills appeared like cut from white paper against the bright blue sky with many clouds bringing even more snow. Daffodils bouquet in green glass vase by the window reflected all those shades of the late April snow. Flower petals appeared almost as made from glassine paper, catching the scarce warmth from the morning sun rays into their translucent shapes. What an abundance of the light caught in the shades of the daffodil’s yellows and whites against the sharp colors of the landscape! Just a feast to paint!
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New This Week curated Saatchi Art collection
Happy to announce my painting Rainy Day Bouquet is featured in the Saatchi Art New This Week Collection! Discover art you love from a collection of new artworks handpicked by Saatchi Art Chief Curator Rebecca Wilson! Discover the collection here, enjoy!
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NFT art has become a hype recently. There might be concerns about a tulip mania phenomena threatening the bubble inevitably pops one day. Yet the pandemic has pushed the margins of digitalization to the extent that one could not have imagined a year ago. Interesting enough, the technology has been accessible for a while yet the change of the perspective has been needed to push us to virtual places, from zoom classrooms to virtual art shows, just to begin with. Understanding the concept of NFT art world is a challenge, mostly as the basic concept of the art collecting has been redefined. I’ve been asked why anyone would buy something that is just a digital picture? Yet just the digitalization has offered the concepts of scarcity and the proof of authenticity. Which might be a big game changer. Today it is impossible to track the digital reproductions of any publicly posted picture which is a painful reality for an artist. Like I’ve been shocked to find out a person on the other side of the globe is selling vases with reproductions of my art on them, no permission or consent asked.
Anyhow, I’ve found the concept appealing, as an early adopter I’ve decided to give it a try. Love the learning process, love the possibilities new technologies offer. And, above all, love painting. So here it comes, my very first NFT, Ostia Antica Ruins, freshly minted to enter the world of future.
I’ve chosen my Ostia Antica Ruins Rome painting, just to remember the world is changing rapidly, but besides ruins art is the one to stay forever.
With a big wish, that there really will be place for true art in the future.
My first NFT art collection ”Tamara Jare Art” is accessible here
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Anemones, still life painting after George Leslie Hunter’s ‘Still Life of Anemones with Striped Wallpaper’ , oil on canvas, 2021
Lines Written in Early Spring
I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;
And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man.
Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;
And ’tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
The birds around me hopped and played,
Their thoughts I cannot measure:—
But the least motion which they made
It seemed a thrill of pleasure.
The budding twigs spread out their fan,
To catch the breezy air;
And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there.
If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature’s holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?
Source: The Longman Anthology of Poetry (Pearson, 2006) from Poetry foundation
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Landscape painting Roman ruins of Ostia Antica is the recent painting series of mine. I’ve worked on it since the Covid- 19 pandemics has started and subsequently we got stuck in quarantine. What has started as reveries and remembering some travels at first, has become a much loved painting subject of me. I’ve loved history since I can remember, Roman history is a subject I could read about hours and hours. No doubt this has been part of the reason of my artistic diving in the scenography of ruins, silent witnesses of forgotten times. But then so many connotations have emerged while I’ve been studying the subject to work further on. One of those is certainly the fact that inhabitants of Ostia, like Romans, experienced many waves of malaria outbreaks. The 9th century A.D. outbreak of malaria in Ostia even left the city abandoned. Absolutely grateful for the vaccine and the fact we won’t need to leave our homes I still do think about the cyclical nature of the history, the fact that as humans we remain vulnerable even today. Which makes me wonder: What is going to stay…
Some Latin phrases:
Espice, adspice, prospice. / Look behind, look here, look ahead.
Vide et credere. / See and believe.
Verba volant, scripta manent. / Spoken words fly away, written words remain.
Quindquid latine dictum est, altum videtur. / Anything said in Latin sounds profound.
Aude sapere. / Dare to know.
Natura, artis magistra. / Nature, the mistress of art.
Qui scribit, bis legit. / Who writes, reads twice.
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Painting process sometimes, or always, gets as interesting as the final work of art itself. It is, after all, a path leading to the final execution of an artistic idea. Dynamics of the painting process mirrors not only the artists specific determinants, but the topography of the place, time, culture, as well. In a way even the time gets crucial role in the painting process. It’s been talked a lot about the right time to finish an art work . Yet for me the flow of the events has been as important as possible, too. And in a strange way, all these factors have to work in a synergy to make the magic happen. This is the simplest description of my painting process I can give.
Painting my last carnations still life paintings has been such a process. Making it easy to explain now, but almost impossible to trigger in advance, which makes it enigmatic, I guess.
This time it has begun with an unplanned Saturday afternoon jump to the local shop, just to grab some bread. At the cashier there have been those bouquets, some faded away tulips losing their petals and just one carnations bouquet left. That went home with me. Won’t talk about determinism here, it seems closer for me to say things happen when we are prepared for them.
At home I’ve chosen the right vase for the flowers and in the afternoon light the pink carnations almost got a glow. It is this critical strong magenta color that I can not capture on the photo. Perhaps some filters would help, have to find it out.
With the flowers on the table I’ve just needed to make a glimpse over the room to fall into that gorgeous magenta color of the bouquet. Could speak hours about the connotations of carnation flowers and my personal love for them. Like from one side, it is worth mentioning carnations are Slovenian national flower. Grown mostly in Gorenjska region of Slovenia, decorating small windows of old peasant homes, nowadays they are becoming a picturesque tourist attraction. Logically then, the stylized carnation form is an evergreen element of decorative arts in my home land . Writing this I’ve just remembered the old carnations pattern on the museum walls of sculptor Ahčin birth home that I’ve used in the portrait of the late artist. Have a look at this portrait here, as I’ve used the Slovenian carnation as a symbol for artist’s connection to his green homeland. Talking about carnation theme brings back also the memories of my first school day, as I entered the universe of education rocking a blouse with embroidered carnations on it, just to hate the schooling system the very next day. The handmade blouse embroidered with rows of red and blue carnations has been carefully kept by my mother, just to be handed down to my kids.
As I’ve transferred the bouquet to my studio in a minute, I’ve started to paint it. This is a reflex of mine, as catching light and colors has to be done asap. Not to mention flowers do die.
Colored pencils sketch has been done first, it is interesting as looking back one can see which elements have remained and what has been deleted in the painting process.
For the painting part, I’ve worked on it next days, as the basic idea has been captured and the time for the pure painting has come.
So far two still life paintings are presented here. The first one is Pink carnations bouquet with lemons. It is difficult to work with magenta, as it has been also difficult to catch the glowing characteristic of the flowers in the vase. Again the photography is not absolutely true to the colors feeling one gets observing this painting on the wall. I am happy with the strong colorful impact of early spring colors on this canvas, accentuated with tiny hieroglyphic sort of lines made with palette knife.
The smaller canvas with yellow background plays with the colors of carnations even more. I love to see how the yellows of the lemons from the previous painting have become background color here. Letting accurate forms of vase and surroundings behind this canvas has become a small example of my very own japonisme painting. Which has not been intended on rational level, but is close to my heart indeed.
