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  Tamara Tsurkan   
  Madison, WI USA  
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Artist Statement
My name is Tamara, I was born in Ukraine and now I live in Madison WI, USA. I started painting in my childhood and I really enjoying doing it. It's like one of my hobbies. I attended an Art School in Ukraine between 1987 and 1989. For the last 5 years I worked as a freelance web and graphics designer. But painting remained my hobby since childhood, and about a year ago I decided to dedicate most of my free time to it. My web design work and my paintings are related in the sense that they let me use my imagination to create something new and unique, but I think that with a brush I can do more from my heart.

I hope you like my Folk Art. There are two things that I love most in the world - children and animals. Both are very frank and open-minded, and that's what I love most in them. And animals can't talk so the only way they express themselves is through emotions! I am a very emotional person myself and I want to understand the emotions of animals from the expression of their faces (and tails :)). I want to depict these emotions in a unique and non-standard way, and so I paint dogs that can fly or cows that can dance like a regular person. My folk art paintings are a world of fairy tales. I hope you can feel and see this world too!

Another area that I am interested in is contemporary art. I made my first contemporary paintings when I was redesigning my living room and needed to add some color to it. So I relate it to interior design and home decor, and when painting I often think about how it would fit the design of a room, what wall colors and what furniture it will match etc.

I think that the main part of creating a contemporary painting is the choice of color. I like to use red and black colors because they are strong colors. I like green too because it is so natural and I like blue since it is the color of the sky. But I like neutral colors too.

I like to do different things in my life and in my paintings - it all depends on my mood. I can feel good or bad and my paintings feel the same... Even though I have my favorite paintings and techniques, I like to try totally different styles and approaches. I believe it is essential to come up with new ideas each time, I think it helps me grow.