Jessica Tamlin

The most important aspect of what I do as a landscape painter is to make people stop, look, listen and feel the landscape that surrounds them. My landscapes are familiar—snapshots taken from my immediate surroundings. People recognize this, often telling me of their connection with a painting—a field they pass by, a hiking trail, a sideroad or a snowy creek. I give people something they know, but maybe don’t always take time to talk about with someone else. Working from photographs or en plein air, I paint flat on my lap or tabletop. My paintings are small in size and my palette is limited with the rich hue of ultramarine blue mixed throughout.

A daughter bred from music and sculpture, I curved my way through life loving and living art. I grew up above a retail shop. After being encouraged by my high school art teacher and my parents to pursue an education in art, I received my honours in Fine Arts at The University of Guelph, specializing in drawing, printmaking and sculpture. Dabbling in paint I had a hard time finding my subject matter. I went on to study Digital Media Arts at Seneca College where I learned graphic design skills.
The years following school, I worked as a Digital Media Artist at a marketing company and an As...

University of Guelph. B.A., Honours, Studio Art, 2001.

Seneca College. Diploma, Digital Media Arts with High Honours, 2003.

Portrait painting with Sara Sniderhan, Creemore, Ontario, 2017.

2021 Mill Street Art Studio, Holiday Group Show, Creemore, Ontario

2021 Front Porch Open Studio, Creemore, Ontario

2021 Mill Street Art Studio, Group Show, Creemore, Ontario

2020 Mill Street Art Studio, Pop Up Gallery, Creemore, Ontario


2020 Front Porch Open Studio, Creemore, Ontario

2019 Murray Jacob Clerkson Show, BMFA, Collingwood, Ontario

2018-19 Tom Thomson Art Gallery, 100 Squares Show and Sale. Owen Sound, Ontario.

2018-19 Creemore Festival of the Arts, Open Studio, Creemore, Ontario.

2018 Curiosity House Books and Gallery, Christmas Group Show. Creemore, Ontario.


2017 ­ Curiosity House Books and Gallery, “Pages of My Life,” Creemore, Ontario.


2014 Creemore-centric, Group Art Show. Creemore, Ontario.

Honours and Awards:
Murray Jacob Clerkson Award for an emerging artist in the Georgian Bay Area, BMFA, 2019.

Shirley Ann Sheppard Scholarship for women continuing in the field of art. Dufferin Arts Council, 1997.