After a long career as an ad agency owner and award-winning creative director for national and international clients, Tammy is a full-time painter, artist and educator who lives and works in her plein air studio on the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia Beach.
Tammy’s latest work deals with binary logic and holding multiple (often deferring and sometimes opposite) thoughts and opinions at the same time. Her gestalt often demands that you see compositions within compositions and often even several paintings as one.
Underpainting and the color and texture it reveals is a big part of this artists approach to bold, intuition driven abstractions.
“I have no real interest in painting what I see, my phone has a camera for that, I paint what I FEEL. That is my catharsis.”
Line is often a “roadmap” for the eye, and color is often the landscape (as if out the window of your car).
On the subject matter found in her work, Tammy says: “Often children and adults alike will ask me what I am painting, as if there must be an object or landscape hidden in my work. I tell them simply I paint the things you can’t see, like love or frustration or both. Like the act of working out a complex issue in your brain. What is this obsession with the physical world? I find the world of the mind way more interesting to interpret, in this way my narrative is often something of a journal. If I revisit a painting I haven’t seen in a long time, I remember the feeling of it.”
