Tamara Armstrong is a dynamic Australian visual artist, living and working from her purpose-built art studio at Tamborine Mountain in the Gold Coast hinterland of Queensland. 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. Having graduated from QUT in 2003 with a dual degree in Visual Art and Secondary Education, Armstrong has over 12 years experience as an Arts Educator and entered the professional art world as a practicing Artist in 2011. Tamara paintings and mural work have decorated the walls of various galleries, public spaces, boutiques, cafes, and commercial offices across the southeast, as well as interstate. A number of her original and commissioned works also hang internationally in private collections. She was a finalist in the Australia's most prestigious prize for female portrait artists - 'Portia Geach Memorial Award' in 2016 and in 2017 her portrait of Faustina Agolley was selected for the alternate Archibald Prize known as the 'Salon des Refuses'. In 2018 she was a finalist in both the Kennedy Art Prize and the Redland Art Award and the Brisbane Portrait Prize. "In this life there are few pleasures that truly immerse the mind, body and soul bringing fourth deep feelings of bliss, rejuvenation and honest self-awareness. For me painting is my ultimate indulgence, my most treasured form of expression and certainly my idea of paradise. My work aims to communicate positivity and acceptance of ‘self’ through a celebration of colour, culture, nature and pattern".
Unfortunately Tamara doe not accept portrait commissions.