"Do whatever brings you to life. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart."
- Elizabeth Gilbert
ARTIST STATEMENT
Creative Surrender
CREATIVE:
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having the quality or power of creating.
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resulting from originality of thought, expression
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originative; productive
SURRENDER:
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to give (oneself) up
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to give (oneself) up to some influence, course, emotion
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to give up, abandon, or relinquish
Drawing inspiration from the natural and urban worlds around me, I use collage, painting and drawing to explore movement colour and shapes, creating visual narratives for viewers to journey through. My process is intuitive and based on my own embodiment and presence. I allow the materials to dictate the flow of the work, combining paper, paint and oil pastels to achieve Creative Surrender.
Creative Surrender is a state of being present and embodied in the creative process, it’s the moment of letting go while making art, when a deep listening to creative intuition occurs, and it’s about giving space and allowing the piece of art to unfurl, emerge and breathe as any living organism would.
ABOUT TAMAR SWARTZ
Tamar Swartz is a mixed media visual artist from Toronto, Ontario, currently living by the ocean in Victoria, BC. She combines paper collage, drawing and painting to create visual narrative works of art.
In Toronto, a collection of her work is represented by La Cabeza Gallery, and is held in private collections around the world, including in the United States, South Africa and Australia. Her work has also been exhibited locally and abroad.
In 2015 Tamar Swartz participated in an international artist residency at art quarter budapest (aqb), in Budapest, Hungary to develop a three-part project called, “Journey to Creative Surrender.”
As an Intuitive Art facilitator, her workshops and projects have involved working with children, adults and seniors using methods central to her own art practice: mixed media using drawing, paper collage and painting.
In 2020, Tamar completed a Master of Social Work degree. She intends to bridge art and therapy to support people in holistic, person-centred end of life care.
GALLERY + SHOP
A new series exploring the Courageous Hearts of two friends navigating the joys and struggles of life with mental illness.
(2018)
La Cabeza Gallery is currently representing a selection of Tamar Swartz's original artwork and prints from the Journeys Collection
(2014)
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