Tamar Kander is a painter who has a studio just outside Bloomington, Indiana, where she lives with her husband and several animals.
She has won many awards both locally and nationally. Her mixed media paintings are represented in museum and corporate collections both in North and South America, as well as Europe and South Africa. Additionally, her work is included in numerous private collections nationally and internationally.
Galleries representing Tamar’s work are located in Santa Fe, Santa Barbara, Chicago, Atlanta, Indianapolis and Bloomington.
She has a BAFA (with honors) from the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, S.A., where she was awarded a travel scholarship to Italy for six months. She has an MFA with a double major in Painting, and Art Therapy, from Goldsmith’s college, University of London, U.K.
She has studied etching and monoprinting at the Art Student’s League of New York, where she was awarded a scholarship, and taught watercolour painting at workshops around the country.
To experience non-representational visual art is passing through a magical portal into an enchanted landscape.
Entering the enchanted land of Tamar Kander’s art offers the viewer stepping-block paths through a rich interior landscape of life’s possibilities and the sense of satisfaction at the end of those steps — while we are sitting or standing right where we are.
