Tamara paints in an expressionist style—a modernist movement that originated as an avant-garde approach at the beginning of the 20th century. She is influenced by Wyoming native, Jackson Pollack, a famous expressionist painter. Distorting the world for emotional effect to evoke moods or ideas—-the style extends to architecture, theater, dance, poetry, film, and music.

Tamara began painting and writing poetry as a child. She’s taken classes from The National Wildlife Museum, Jackson Hole Center for the Arts, Central Wyoming College, The Contemporary Austin Art School, and studied under numerous professional artists.

She was taught the workings of nature by her parents—avid naturalists who she spent summers camping on horseback through Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, Idaho and South Carolina. Featured in National Geographic Magazine and Museum of the Mountain Man, her family kept a wilderness camp in the backcountry of Mount Moran in the Grand Tetons.

“Painting makes me feel like I’m in a dance with my art. It’s alive—with all my ancestors and life and energy flowing onto the canvas.” Tamara is also inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe, Joan Mitchell, Nicolai Fechin, Gerhardt Richter, Tom Gilleon, Neltje, Fritz Scholder, Theodore Waddell and her mother Raylene Ashburn—an award winning artist from the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

Tamara is now exhibiting at St. John’s Hospital and represented at Little Dipper Art Studio by appointment. Please email her at: tamara@littledipperartstudio.com