Tamara attended Glendale Community  College in arizona  where she learned drawing, composition and painting before  transferring to arizona State  University where she earned a Bfa Degree in 1986.   She later continued her studies in  NYC at the art Students League and Nat’l academy Of art & Design,  where she studied under some of america’s top Portrait & Landscape Painters.  

      In addition to painting,  Tamara has worked as an art Consultant and Gallery Owner/Director in Scottsdale, arizona.  Today she resides in Port Richey, florida where she specializes in creating exterior and interior colorful and realistic "Trompe l'oeil" Tropical Landscapes and Marine Life Wall Murals.  She is also the Technical Mural advisor for the New Port Richey Design Committee.    

      Since 1997, she has completed 83 murals that are in corporate and private collections nationwide.  Since 1986, she has created numerous canvas paintings and pencil drawings that are in collectors homes and offices world-wide.  

Professional Resume'

                                "Great art picks up where nature ends. But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures." 

 Marc Chagall 1887-1985

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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating.  It is either good or bad.

  Salvador Dali

Pasco, Washington 

 

 

 

"Where the spirit  does not work with the hand, there is no art."  

  Leonardo Da Vinci  

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      "Here's looking at you kid."

 

     City Of New Port Richey, fL

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  Hudson, fL          

Mike and Toniann's family  gathering. 

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Original Paintings  Oil on panel  

  Tropical Sea Life, Marine Life, People, flower, Wildlife & Underwater themes.

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West Palm Beach, fL   

 Jane & Charlie's: Tropical Wall Mural 

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Port Richey, fL

Kay Sampson's Murals      

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      KOa fiesta Key, fL         

frogs, fish, Sharks and 

 Underwater Murals     

   

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Naples, florida                     

Mural on heavily textured wall...   

acrylic On  Concrete

 

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fiesta Key, fL

Nick & Helen's Boat

            fiesta Key, fL

Visit the KOa Hotel Rooms link to  view rms. 1-20  

 Hyla US 

Pompano Beach, fL

         

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   Pembroke Pines, fL

Tuscany Landscape

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Pembroke Pines, fL

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Mesa, arizona

     Dr. & Mrs. Bunchman