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Her work is highly collectible and scale mural projects and t
hangs internationally in private eaching painting workshops in
collections as well as substantially her signature style. Over the
across commercial spaces and private years Tamara has offered
collections in southeast Queensland, painting creative workshops to
NSW, Victoria, SA and WA. Painting is adults of all ages and feels the
her passion and her style is reward of witnessing people
largely inspired by striking palettes step out of their comfort zone
and patterns observed both in the and overcome nagging doubt in
design world as well as from the their artistic abilities.
natural surrounds of her Tamborine
Mountain home. Tamara has just released her
Having graduated from QUT in 2003 ‘Creative Collage Kits’ this year,
with a dual degree in Visual Art and which feature stylised line
Secondary Education, Armstrong has illustrations of a few of her
over 12 years’ experience as an Arts ‘Women of Colour’ portrait
Educator and entered the professional series. The illustrations are
art world as a practicing artist in 2011. printed on fine cotton rag paper
She occasionally returns to schools as which allows for watercolours,
an artist in residence, working on large felts, inks and glue to be added.
She then posts the portraits with
an array of colourful, textured
and patterned papers as well as
a card with words of
encouragement allowing
customers to host their own
creative gathering or to get
mindful at home alone with a
beautiful starting point. There
are also free art journaling tips
on Tamara’s workshop
Instagram handle
@my_friend_can_paint and at
her Facebook page ’Tamara
Armstrong Visual Artist’, which
Tamara posted during COVID
isolation in April of this year. The
idea was to help people start
their own art journal with some
really basic and achievable tips
and tasks. Tamara was blown
away by the response and the
many photos people tagged her
in to show them starting their
own journals or even better,
getting their kids involved too.
To find more about Tamara, you
can visit her website.
You can purchase a ‘Creative
Workshop Kit’ in two different
styles from her online shop.
