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Willowing Arts - Tamara Laporte - Mixed Media Artist, Illustrator and Teacher

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Overview

BM WILLOWING ARTS London, United Kingdom London, England WC1N 3XX

Tam (also known as willowing) is a mixed media artist, illustrator and online art teacher who loves being messy and is addicted to brayering paint. Her work can be described as mixed media folk art.

w: www.willowing.org

e: tamara.laporte@gmail.com

Description

Tam's art ranges from cute children's illustrations to a more stylised fantasy type art. Her art often incorporates healing themes, uplifting messages and inspirational poetry. She is also a prolific art journaller and creates stuffed toys and art dolls when she has the time! Recently, digital creations have been calling her and she's loving creating paintings in photoshop as well. She is based in Brighton in the UK with her lovely husband Andy and her magical child Dylan. She's been teaching online art workshops since 2008.

Tam teaches workshops that are available on DVD. Here are the courses:


Ultimate World of Whimsy

Ultimate World of Whimsy is as comprehensive as it can get! Learn how to create your own whimsical character and get ALL the extra from WOW 2 as well!!



Awesome Art Journal

Art Journals are magical places where all judgements fall away! Your Art Journal is a place where you can create without inhibitions or fear of 'doing it wrong'. Art Journals are not for making 'perfect' art (what is that anyway?), they are for soul expression, a space for you to be, to express, create, to heal, to laugh, to cry! This course will do just that; help you express your soul in creative, expressive and outrageous ways!



Fabulous Faces

Have you always wanted to create pretty portraits? Are you fascinated with drawing faces but can't quite get them to look the way you want? Then this might be the course for you! Learn how to draw and shade a front facing portrait as well as a 3 quarter and a profile one! In addition you'll be learning about adding extra elements to your piece and background integration as well!


Magical Mythical Makings

Come join me on a magical journey and explore the magical world of Goddesses, Fairies, Angels, Mermaids and Unicorns! Explore different surfaces and be inspired by the old masters like Klimt, Froud and Mucha!


Q & A Artist Interview:

1. Who are you and how would you describe your work/ art and where are you originally from, your accent sounds Dutch? How long have you been painting?

Hello! I am Tam (full name: Tamara Laporte - I have a middle name too but it shall not be uttered! ;)). I am also known as 'willowing'. I own this ning site! I am originally from Holland (The Netherlands) in Northern Europe.

I would describe my work as mixed media folk art. It ranges from cute children's illustrations to a more stylised fantasy type art. I have recently started working digitally as well which is great fun!

I've been painting/ drawing since I was very young, I remember once being incredibly proud of having drawn a cat in school when I was about 8! I started doing art more formally and seriously in high school and 'majored' in art & music. I then went to an Art Academy in Amsterdam for a year but didn't enjoy that very much. Since then I've been self-taught.

2. Tam, your soul is so full of light and your heart is a fountain of love, so this question may be totally irrelevant, but, apart from your family and all the love around you, what inspires you the most?

I draw inspiration from a variety of sources; from music to nature to work by other artists, but you're asking me what inspires me the most. I'd have to say that I feel most driven by wanting to send art into the world that is both attractive to the eye but also 'happy-making'. :0) I love feeling inspired by a quote, poetry or a simple positive affirmative statement (like; "I am Free" or "You are Loved").

It's one thing to create something that is aesthetically beautiful to the eye, but for me, it adds a whole dimension to my work when the message it delivers touches people on a deeper level. This is why I am very fond of some of my Rumi inspired work (The Universe Pays Attention to You - for instance).

3. What has your art journey been like? What other styles and mediums did you try before you found "Tam's Style"?

It's so funny when people ask me this because I don't really feel I have a 'Tam Style' quite yet although it's emerging more and more. I love trying out different things, the one day I really ache to do a beautiful stylised portrait and the other day I just want to produce loads of whimsy cuteness, the styles, though probably recognisably mine, are pretty different. But I digress. Before I did what I do now I used to work mostly on canvas in acrylics. I worked in watercolour sometimes too (with my late gran, miss her), but mostly acrylics. Dabbled with oils too, but turns out I have no patience, ha! I want to be able to finish a painting within 4 hours, not 4 days! The themes of my paintings then were more fantasy based, I did centaurs, unicorns and a lot of fairy type beings! The painting on the left is an example of some of my earlier work. I am not a huge fan of my earlier style truth be told, but I think we all have that! I do see them as having been an important part of my development, progress and process! Without having done those paintings, I wouldn't be where I am now. :)


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Hours of work

Website is open 24/7!

Locations

London, United Kingdom