She has received the Auguste Rodin prize, hosted a tv program and few weeks ago one of her art pieces, a 70 thousand usd painting, was stolen from a Pasadena private collection. In this interview the Chilean artist set in Concepcion, answers many questions.
How do you feel about the art market? I am intellectually interested, I studied art history so I am supposed to be able to put a price on a painting, but I think I am mostly concerned with the inner quality of a product and not its fame or with whom the painter is friends with. I think we should be allowed to have an opinion and not be dependent on what others think, so I have a sort of critical approach.
You seem to move from one style to another with some ease. You say it because one day I paint abstract and other I paint flowers? Yes, I like switching because I like freedom of thought, because with the abstract painting I can make emotional, personal statements. With flowers I get to communicate with nature, and the beauty that surrounds us all, I get to capture a particular moment, a particular quality of the light, a particular shade of a color. Many of my floral paintings are in hospitals in the USA, I’ve told that people feels more calmed when seeing an object of beauty on their waiting.
You seem like a happy person, what do you want to communicate with your art? I want to communicate emotions, personal thoughts, ideas I explore on my daily life. I want to share the beauty that’s around us.
Tamara de las Tormentas is a visual artist from the Bio Bio Region, resident of the Chiguayante commune, with more than 30 years of experience in abstract painting, landscapes, oils and graphite. She has worked in various areas, being also the host of the online TV program “Conversing with Tamara”, as well as an actress and executive producer of the movie “Opera Prima”. He began to work in black and white, to eventually get to the colors, “I began to mix and bring my art to life, to capture in it what I saw in reality,” said the visual artist.
It is from these two aspects that her greatest source of inspiration emerges when expressing her art, “nature is there and that you can take it to the canvas is the maximum, then what I paint most are forests, water, streams that they form, plants that grow at the water’s edge. It is intriguing and fascinating to be able to capture a particular moment, an exclusive quality of light and a specific shade of a color, ”said Tamara de las Tormentas. You can visit her exhibition online here, additional info on Tamara de las Tormentas Art Gallery.
For our spanish language readers :
Tamara de las Tormentas, artista visual de la octava region, residente en Chiguayante, con mas de treinta anos de experiencia en la pintura abstracta, paisajes, oleos y grafito. Se ha desempenado en diversas areas, siendo tambien conductora del programa de Television “Conversando con Tamara” y actriz y productora ejecutiva de la pelicula una “Opera Prima”.
La destacada artista visual chilena Tamara de las Tormentas recibio el premio Auguste Rodin a las Artes Visuales de manos de la directora del Centro Cultural de Tome Valeria Gajardo. La Concepcion del Arte ha sido la entidad organizadora de la exhibicion Onirica y proximamente de la exposicion Dualidades.