Biography

Tamara Sullivan (b. Boston, MA) was classically trained in painting and sculpture at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. She graduated with a BFA in 2007. In 2008, she moved to Prescott, AZ to broaden her artistic practice and studied Regenerative Ecological Design at the Ecosa Institute.

She gained experience in ecological design, planning, whole systems design. Tamara received an MA in Sustainable Communities from Northern Arizona University with a focus on art and science collaboration. She moved to Portland, ME in 2013 and completed an accelerated MAT in Art Education. She has taught art at every grade level in public and private settings in Arizona and Vermont. Tamara currently lives in Vermont with her husband and daughter.

Statement

I am interested in the measurement of time and how our understanding of time shifts throughout our individual lives and collectively through history. Landscape presents a way to explore time through mark making, light, movement, and weather. I attempt to use mark making to simplify a moment in time. I paint in watercolor because to me, the immediacy of the material and the execution required to simplify complexity found in the landscape reflects how color and light describe form at certain moments in time.