Tamara Dvaretskaya

Trained in the fine arts, she spent years as an international fashion model — giving her image to brands and other people's visions while never stopping to paint.

She has dyslexia. School was a wall she could not get through — books and words made no sense. The one place she never struggled was in front of a canvas. Colour was the only language that always made complete and immediate sense, and it became the foundation of everything she would go on to create.

Her abstract work in oil on canvas — housed in solid hand-carved wooden frames, everything natural, built to last — draws from two intertwining influences: the psychology of colour and the symbolism of tarot arcana. Each painting is an intentional intervention in space, conceived to shift the emotional atmosphere of the room it enters and the inner life of the person who lives with it.

Colour for her is science and language simultaneously. She understands, at a level that goes beyond study, how a particular blue slows the nervous system, how deep earth tones create psychological permanence, how warm neutrals lower cortisol and allow the body to rest.

She makes art for collectors who understand that a painting is living presence that holds a story, transforms a space, and q...

2010–2013: Diploma in Fine Art & Art Pedagogy, Gomel State Art College (GGHK), Belarus
Focus: Professional Oil Painting & Art Education

2012: International Open-Air Symposium & Exhibition Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812 (Napoleonic Wars), Red Cross Artists' Gathering, Minsk, Belarus
2010–2013: Regional & Student Exhibitions, Gomel, Belarus.