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FEATURED ARTISTS
Piscatorial Passions Etcetera |
Tara Wilde is a young emerging artist with a passion for the ocean and the plants and animals that inhabit this environment. We are excited to feature her aquatic adventures captured on paper and canvas
Exhibiting from November 2006
Summer @ Wilson's Feature Artist |
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Red Snapper Blues |
Garfish Gala |
Saegrass Green |
Artists Statement
I was born & spent most of my years at Kingston SE, which has ingrained a deep love & respect of the ocean & all its wonderful diversity.
I have always had a passion for art & this was encouraged & explored with the wonderful art teachers I had at Kingston on the Limestone Coast of South Australia. I had lessons in oil painting when I was 12 for a year and a half with a little old lady called Zola. I stopped dabbling with the brush at age 17, went on to become a manager in the food manufacturing industry & only picked up the brush again at age 35 after I left work to have a baby in Oct 2005. Yes that is a big gap! I have been busy with both ever since!
My main artistic focus is fish & the ocean, having been on fishing adventures since I was 3 & spear fishing since age 7, my ancestors were fishers & this heritage is actually Robe originated with some great characters in the local history books. I still do a lot of fishing in the boat, especially with Dad every year, & these fish I paint, I have caught, they all have a story which you will find a piece of on the back of my work!
The sea has treasures & obscurities that are a true delight, fish which have personality, senses of humour & ferocity, cuteness, beauty & …….almost ugliness! It’s ever changing, moody & occasionally lullingly gentle……………….its endlessly fascinating. It draws me back & is truly my happy place! Ironically I live in a town on the Murray River…………………but the sea calls me!
Each piece I do, is not just a picture, it’s a wonderfully happy piece of me. So should you be one of those whose choose one, remember to smile at it, as it has made me smile too!
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