Though it's hard to believe, summer is finally winding down. Before the sun begins to set to fall, we wanted to feature another artist who reminds us of summer. Tamara Phillips of Vancouver Island paints lustrous wildlife illustrations with hues of blues and aquas. Her love of nature and wildlife is evident in every slender stroke and meticulously drawn circle. Mixed with wood textures, her final pieces become entrancing - trailing from the shape of a jellyfish or an otter, soon you lose yourself in the myriad of mandala-like details that make up each hair, face, or feather.
Moonlit Owl, Tamara Phillips
" I am completely inspired by the natural world. Beauty is everywhere.
It is in the growth of the forest, the depth of the sea, and the curve of the bone.
It is skin, scales, bark, and tide pool ripples. It is texture, and it is raw.
I am a translator of life, and I am compelled to narrate it."
- Tamara Phillips, from her bio-page.
When looking at her pieces, one almost feels as if the subjects themselves are fluid, ever-moving and perhaps not entirely real. They move as if manifested out of water itself, floating, condensing, evaporating. It is this sense of permeability and (yet) impermanence that makes Phillip's work truly a blend of "myth, dream, intuition, and reality".
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| Orca, 7x10, Tamara Phillips |
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| Sea Otter, 14x11 |
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