Tamara Gonda
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Untitled II$ 375.00
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Untitled III$ 375.00
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Untitled I$ 375.00
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Rain Day$ 1,100.00
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Spring in Maine$ 1,150.00
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Setting Sails$ 1,800.00
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Blue$ 2,400.00
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Still on my Feet$ 2,400.00
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And I Think of You$ 2,800.00
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Shadows Falling$ 3,400.00
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She Walked to the Trees$ 3,400.00
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Your Easy Laughter$ 3,600.00
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Heard Your Laughter Sold
I call myself a colorist. Color is the life of my paintings. The work flows between watercolor, encaustic/coldwax and acrylics touching on many temperaments. The one thing they all have in common is the vitality of color.
I used to mainly produce Color Field and Abstract Expressionist works. After my first trip to Paris and visiting Monet’s Musee de Orangerie and his painting backdrops my work changed dramatically. They changed into what I call my Lyrical-Abstracts. A series of richly colored paintings with a defined subject matter of landscapes, or dreams of landscapes. The painting surface embraces rhythmic brush strokes, rich color, that build a contemporary landscape.
I have never painted anything close to realism before. I never even imagined myself painting realism before. And yet here I am painting the sights that we have visited, mostly from travels to national parks. I enjoy remembering our family time through my paintings.
I’ve come to enjoy the beauty of watercolors that mirror the fluidity of the water, at times lack of control of water. That is what I enjoy most of all, the controlled chaos of the water/paint flow. Watercolors seem to be a world away from my home of abstract painting; they are really a cousin to it. The color once again is what really draws me in.
M.F.A. From Cornell University and B.F.A. From Virginia Commonwealth University