I’m Tamara Grand, and I make unapologetically colourful art.

 Three years of exploration, experimentation, and an unrelenting obsession with colour. This exhibition is what that looks like.

 I’ve always been captivated by colour, its mood, its power, its ability to transform a space and everyone in it. I’ve learned to lean into that rather than away from it. My paintings embrace that energy, vibrant on the surface, but rewarding for those who look closer.

 Before I started painting, I was a scientist. I think of the studio as a laboratory, a place for asking questions, experimenting without a predetermined outcome, and staying open to wherever the work leads.

 My paintings develop through layers of acrylic, wax pastel, graphite, and paper. I add, cover, mask, and selectively reveal earlier marks, allowing traces of previous decisions to remain visible.

Colour is my primary tool, it’s how I direct emotion, build tension, and make you look again. Circular forms recur throughout, functioning almost as portals that draw the eye inward and invite a deeper kind of observation.

 Living on the west coast, I’m surrounded by a natural world that never stops surprising me. Those discoveries, of form, texture, and colour hiding in plain sight, subconsciously find their way into everything I make.

 What moves me most — in nature, in colour, in the act of painting itself — is the feeling of unexpected discovery. I hope the work brings you a little of that too.