Tara is a Queensland-based Artist from Noosa. She has a beautiful gift for immersing the viewer into her world. Her paintings engage us with their strength of character and their subtle, yet raw colour palette. Each original work evokes a sense of enduring, self-contained innocence and contentment. Works range in themes from playful childhood wonder to deeper, more convoluted meaning. Tara Spicer’s works are a call to the wild at heart, the daydreamers and the escape artists. They evoke a longing to revisit feelings of ease, simplicity and connecting with the wonders of life. Offering both fine art oil paintings, quirky composited photography and limited edition prints of original works. Her works present a subdued colour palette to allow the central figure to hold the power within each piece, giving a strength of presence within the piece as well as space for the viewer to place themselves within the artwork. Her works allow you to truly immerse yourself in the feelings of the moment presented through each piece. “I believe that art has the power to create a shift within a person, not unlike a song or a well read story, that changes the person from that moment on. Viewing a painting, should be like taking a vacation with ones own sense of self… to a place that they would rather be”
Wild Hearts Will
Oil on Linen Size: 120 x 120cm This artwork was created as a celebration of that aspect of certain young women who a self-assured, self-contained, independent with a dash of attitude. The design of this image was based on the likes of Amelia Earhart and other female pioneers in the field of aviation as well as a book titled 'The Bridge Across Forever'. The denim was a pure delight to paint as were every element that makes up this beautiful young lady that posed for the artist. This young lady herself is currently readying to fly the coup and make a homebase and an adventure abroad, so the whole experience was quite fitting! This piece is a celebration in many ways. It is a celebration of the young woman featured, as well as of the artist herself as her own family grows and matures, as well as the changes that are still unfolding for females the world over, whether it be progress or the global, sad, recognition of the opposite, depending on where you might reside. Fly baby, fly!