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Tamara Armstrong is an
award-winning professional
artist based at Tamborine
Mountain in the Gold Coast
hinterland of Queensland, where
she lives and works from her
purpose-built art studio.
Growing up with a variety of
artistic family influences,
Armstrong has been exposed to
the arts and has been a ‘maker’
for as long as she can remember.
She paints to understand her life
and cultural heritage as she lives
it, blending her innate love for
colour and nature with
contemporary perspectives of
‘connection’, to create visually
bold and uplifting imagery.
Tamara has been a finalist in the
Australia’s most prestigious art
award for female painters; the
Portia Geach Memorial Award,
as well as having work selected
for the ‘Salon dès Refusès’ aka
the alternate Archibald Prize, the
Kennedy Prize, the Redland Bay
Award and the Brisbane Portrait
Prize.