Almonte Library Corridor Gallery, November 30, 2025 – January 3, 2026
The Corridor Gallery at the Almonte Library is pleased to present the work of artist Tamara Campbell. Tamara is an abstract artist, working primarily in mixed media. Her paintings are bold, colourful and full of details. She is inspired by nature with its abundance of colours, textures and forms; these details emerge through the many layers that build upon each other as she creates her paintings.
She likes to work in collections and the main one that has captured her attention right now deals with creation, destruction and recreation involving the give and take of letting go of control and taking control through several different steps. She creates five large paintings using a chosen palette, photographs details from them and then she turns the paintings face down and cuts them into strips of varying widths. The 90 or so resulting strips from the paintings are then mixed and reassembled into new, colourful assemblages.
Tamara has experimented with art since she was a child, and as an adult she has taken a wide variety of art courses. Her unique style blends playful creativity and experimentation with learned techniques. Her life experiences, both wonderful and difficult, inform her perspective. She uses art as a process to search for peace, happiness and healing within herself. Tamara’s goal as an artist is to create art that provides a visual escape for her viewers – a place to get happily lost in the details.
She shares her creative process and art on her Instagram profile (tamara_h_campbell) and Facebook art page (Tamara H Campbell Art). Tamara has lived in many different places in Canada, including in the Arctic. She now lives, nestled in the woods, outside of Burnstown. Art has always been a part of her life and she has taken many workshops and courses over the years. She studied photographic arts at Ryerson in Toronto in the early 80s.
Her art can be purchased directly from Tamara by emailing her at tamarahcampbell@gmail.com or calling her at 613-407-7145.
