Tamar Arbel Elisha
Freestyle Painting
053-7629333 | 24 Yemey Binyamina st. Binyamina | info@painting-inside-out.com
Hi, I am Tamar,
Painting for me is freedom.
It all begun while I was still an employee. All of a sudden, I felt that desire to create. Differently. Like I've never created before. Without looking at anything. Without trying. Just play with paint.
I did it secretly. It was such a liberation it's hard to describe.
I got a framework within I could do whatever I want. I am the only one who decide about me.
I soon realized that it was much more than "just painting". This was the beginning of an endless and fascinating process of walking into the unknown, of self-discovery. It may sound like a cliché, but wow, how powerful it was!
About four years later, when I was unexpectedly fired from my job, I was already prepared for the unexpected.
I got a lifetime opportunity that I shouldn't have missed - to reinvent myself.
My paintings, and the various workshops I offer, try to convey this message of liberation.
For me painting is freedom. Maybe for you too?
Artistic Education
2015 - 2016 Curation, Kibbutzim College of Education
1990 – 1994 Hamidrasha - Faculty of Arts
1988 - 1989 Phtography, Camera Obscura
Exhibitions:
2023 Freestyle Painting - Solo exhibition, Zichron Yaakov Library. Curator: Revital Silverman-Grun
2022 Outdoor Group Exhibition – Creating 100 with love, Binyamina
2022 Outdoor Group Exhibition – Towards Home and Away, Zichron Yaakov. Curator: Revital Silverman-Grun
2022 An Ongoing Story, Solo exhibition, Binyamina Library
2021 Outdoor Group Exhibition – Taninim Stream
2021 Group Exhibition – Fantasy, Reality and Dream, Performing Arts Hall Herzliya, Curator: Galia Shechter
2021 Group Exhibition – Creating A Place, Zichron Yaakov. Curator: Revital Silverman-Grun
2017 Curating the Outdoor Group Exhibition – Regional IDentity
1994 All is Water, Hamidrasha - Faculty of Arts, Ramat Hasharon
Yael
When I thought what I would like to hang on my office wall, the wall in front of me, which I see for long hours every day, it was clear to me that it had to be something that was very "me". With miraculous timing, a conversation with Tamar arrived, and I suddenly realized that she would know exactly how to express, without me having to explain, what I wanted. The code name exchanged between us was "the picture with the rose" and that was enough. A few weeks later, the interpretation of Tamar, my father's sister, who was killed when I was one and a half years old, came as an abstract painting includes a picture of him and me, with the rose bush. There is no doubt, there can be no more "me" than that. I am excited every time to look up at the wall in front of me...
Gadi
I saw Tamar's artworks in a group exhibition at Zichron Yaakov. The two paintings immediately caught my eye.
For many years I have been interested in art, visiting galleries (mainly in Asia and Australia where I have lived for over two decades) and often buying works that I connect with.
The immediate connection to these paintings made me happy and the timing was wonderful because my eldest son moved to New York and I decided to buy them so that one of them would move with him to New York, and the other would return with me to Sydney, Australia.
The absolute connection between the two made it more profound. Even though the two paintings will be a great distance apart, the connection between them, like the connection between me and my son, will always exist.
Even today, when my gaze meets Tamar's painting in Sydney, I immediately think of its other part on the other side of the world.
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