Tamara Lewis

Berryville, VA

Tamara Lewis creates expressive paintings inspired by animals, people, and the places they inhabit. Drawn to character, connection, and the small moments that make a subject feel alive, she uses bold color, shape, pattern, and expressive mark-making as the foundation of her work. Her paintings often begin in abstraction, with the drawing gradually emerging as layers develop. Working intuitively, Lewis allows early marks and unexpected passages to remain visible, embracing whimsy, distortion, and surprise along the way. Her subjects move freely between animals, figures, and landscape, often blurring the boundaries between observation and imagination. She is less interested in describing exactly what she sees than in capturing something of how it feels. At the heart of her evolving practice is a growing trust in instinct and the freedom to follow where the painting leads.