Tara Krebs is a Canadian artist, currently working and residing in Toronto, Ontario where she earned her B.F.A at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Much of her inspiration comes from her love of animals and nature and an interest in curiosities of the world, past and present. Tara was raised in a small suburb of Toronto called Thornhill, where she spent much of her youth locked inside her imagination to avoid the harsh cold climate of the long Canadian winter. Tara has exhibited her work internationally and has also painted figures and stop-motion puppets for television.  Most days, Tara can be found in her studio, doodling creatures and eating snacks.

Personal note on current work:

"My work is an exploration of my own feelings toward the Earth and life on it, told through vague narratives that reflect and combine a passion for mythology, stories, humour, and the absurd. Through my paintings I explore a personal fascination for the symbiotic connection of all things and the energy that seems to tie us all together. Human beings have a habit of thinking that we dominate all else in the world. It is my belief that our degree of importance to this large organism does not rely on our size or intelligence, but rather that we are all equally interdependent of one another. Through this belief, my definition of tree, animal or element has come to blur together as my understanding of the interconnectedness of things evolves. This idea materializes in my work through the fusion and transmogrification of plants and animals, disrupting the concept that everything exists independently.

As my paintings are an expression of my feelings toward nature, so too are they a dedication to the magical and impossible worlds that I effortlessly got lost in as a child, before my mind wandered so waywardly (albeit reluctantly!) into “adulthood.” These images are only flickers that allow a brief glimpse or scene of a story, requiring the viewer’s imagination to fill in the blanks, much in the way that my own memories of childhood reach out to me through briefly illuminated fragments."  

- Tara  :)

To find out more, visit Tara's blog.