Tamara
Vermunt

Tamara Vermunt returned to painting as a means to cope while being a new mother and at the same time grieving the gradual loss of her own mother to early-onset Alzheimer's disease.

Seeing her artwork as autobiographical of the mind, a visual diary of the iceberg underneath, she prefers the abstract genre where she can be free from visual reference.  The play between light and colour is an important theme in her paintings produced in gouache and chalk pastel or oil.  The deliberately chosen white or black background represents the immaterial space of the mind.  Often Tamara will enlarge and print her gouache paintings to explore the representation of detail and colour on larger scale. 

The act of painting as creating interests her in a metaphysical sense: "being" oneself, and the final result, a captured moment through which something beyond is translated into an image.  This mystery recalls the "Mind Theme" in Tamara's painting: the mind's perception of reality in all its own immaterialness, expressed in paint with light and colour.   

Tamara currently lives in Rome with her 4 year old son and partner who is a philosopher of theoretical philosophy.   She is interested in Art as a therapy and is an avid supporter of research for a cure for Alzheimer's disease and general mental health well-being.