Featured Artist Tara Verkuil

Enjoy the ebullient portfolio of mixed media artist Tara Verkuil, who creates colorful and whimsical nature-inspired paintings. View more on her website.

 

 

I’ve always felt most at home when creating, when light, color, and memory find their way onto canvas. From an early love of art and beauty, I’ve been drawn to the quiet poetry of landscapes, florals, and abstraction. These are the spaces where emotion and environment merge.

 

 

My work is deeply rooted in nature, inspired by the rhythm of the natural world and the calm strength found in open skies, moving horses, and shifting light.

 

 

As an abstract painter, I build my surfaces in layers, allowing each mark and gesture to emerge intuitively. I move between control and surrender—adding, erasing, tracing, and blending until something honest appears.

 

 

The process itself becomes a meditation: color meeting calm, graphite tracing memory, texture holding emotion. My materials often echo the tension I feel within—between chaos and order, movement and stillness, past and present.

 

 

Each painting becomes a conversation between what I see and what I feel, between the landscape outside my window and the one that exists within me.

 

 

Through form, color, and depth, I aim to create a visual language that speaks to both the internal world of thought and emotion, and the external world of air, light, and motion.

 

 

I believe art has the power to speak where words fall away. It can hold stillness, evoke memory, and open a space for reflection.

 

 

My hope is that each piece offers that pause, a moment of connection or recognition, where the viewer feels drawn inward, reminded of something unspoken but deeply familiar.

 

 

Through my work, I invite others to slow down and breathe. Rediscover the quiet beauty that exists between movement and rest, color and silence, knowing and wonder. Each canvas is both a reflection and a release. It is an invitation to see, to feel, and to simply be.

 

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