Tammy Woolgar
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Tammy Woolgar spends her days dancing in paint and loves travelling the world in search of artistic inspiration. Essentially self-taught, she started painting seriously after her first trip to Europe in 1990. She is inspired by colour and light, movement and textures, natural forms contrasting against manmade objects and the interplay between them. Her paintings emerge from places she has experienced. Whether it’s majestic trees rising from the earth to embrace the sun, clay flowerpots brimming with red geraniums, Muskoka chairs in a colourful garden, rusty trucks standing in a row in a sunlit field, or sunflowers basking against an Alberta summer sky, Tammy sees that the objects are alive and each have their own character. Colours burst on the canvas in thick, textured brushstrokes. An impression is captured; her vision expressed. Tammy is a juried member of the Alberta Society of Artists.
ARTIST STATEMENT
We all experience this world in our own unique way. The viewer brings their special vision to my paintings, looking at them from their reality. I want the viewer to look at my work and have it evoke a mood or memory in them. I want the dialogue between the viewer and the painting to flow so they can tell each other their story.
EXHIBITIONS
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2006 | Good Day for a Road Trip Modern Eyes Gallery, St. Albert, AB |
| 2006 | A Celebration of Summer Modern Eyes Gallery, St. Albert, AB |
| 2004 | A Bouquet of Paintings Chachkas, Edmonton, AB |
| 1998 | Girls of Summer Solo Show St. Thomas Coffee House, St. Albert, AB |
| TRAVELLING EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2009-10 | Painted with Music - Joni Mitchell, ASA Juried Provincial Travelling Exhibition Northern & Southern Jubilee Auditoriums, Edmonton & Calgary |
| 2008-10 | Small is All, ASA Juried Interprovincial Travelling Exhibition Calgary, Spruce Grove, Frank, AB, and North Battleford, SK |
| 2003-05 | ARS Poetica, Alberta Foundation for the Arts Juried Travelling Exhibition The Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB |
| 2001-03 | Blooming Prairie, Alberta Foundation for the Arts Juried Travelling Exhibition Thorsby, Sherwood Park, Bonnyville, Morinville, St. Albert, Edmonton, AB |
| 2000-02 | Bridging a New Century, ASA Juried Provincial Travelling Exhibition Red Deer, Stony Plain, Lethbridge, Edmonton, Blairmore, Grande Prairie, Calgary, AB |
| SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2007-Present | Rowles & Company Ltd., Edmonton, AB |
| 2015-2016 | #YEGCANVAS, Edmonton Arts Council/Pattison Outdoor Juried Exhibition Edmonton, AB |
| 2008 | Peaks and Valleys, ASA Juried Exhibition Canmore, AB |
| 2005 | State of the Art, Alberta Centennial, ASA Juried Exhibition Edmonton, AB |
| 2004 | In My Backyard, City of Edmonton Centennial, ASA Juried Exhibition Edmonton, AB |
| 2003 | Inspired by Landscape, ASA & Leighton Centre Juried Exhibition Calgary, AB |
| 2002 | Visions of Wellness, ASA Juried Exhibition Edmonton, AB |
| 1998 | Awakening Souls to Art, ASA Juried Provincial Exhibition Edmonton, AB |
| 1995 | Art Expo Las Vegas, Nevada, USA |
| EDUCATION | |
| 2000 | Self Management for the Practicing Artist Profiles Public Art Gallery, St. Albert, AB |
| 1996 | The Art of Business, The Business of Art Rowles & Parham Design Gallery, Edmonton, AB |
| 1993 | Portfolio Presentation Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB |
| 1993 | Instructor: Elyse Eliot-Los Making Art Your Business Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB |
| 1988 | Graduate of Environmental Graphic Design Program Grant MacEwan Community College, Edmonton, AB, Courses: Art History, Design, 3-D Design, Drawing, Photography |
| 1986 | Graduate of Spruce Grove Composite High School Spruce Grove, AB, Honours in Art 30 |
| 1985 | Summerscapes Red Deer College, Red Deer, AB, Courses: Drawing, Painting, Sculpture |
COLLECTIONS
| First Canadian Insurance Group, Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada |
| Qualico Commercial, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Don Wheaton Family YMCA Permanent Art Collection, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Kunamokst-Coastal Inspirations Mural, Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada |
| Cultivate Life Mural, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada |
| Buffalo Twins, Alberta-Saskatchewan Centennial Mural, Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada |
| What Inspires a Child-St. Albert Children’s Legacy Mural, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada |
| Technology North Corporation, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| The Capital Care Group, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| University of Alberta & Stollery Children’s Hospitals Permanent Art Collection, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| The Salvation Army, Cornerstone Apartments, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| Private collections in Canada, United States and Europe |
| ACHIEVEMENTS | |
| ASA Juried “Christmas Membership Print ”, “Studio Chair” linoprint was selected and produced for distribution to Alberta Society of Artists membership. | |
| 1988 | Purchase award from City of Spruce Grove, AB |
| five colour silkscreen print was chosen at Allied Arts Council Show | |
| 1987 | Allied Arts Council Scholarship, AB |
| 1986 | County of Parkland Scholarship, AB |
| 1986 | Purchase award from Alberta Culture, copper drypoint print was purchased and presented to Mr. Ken Taylor, Make Contact II Conference, Edmonton, AB |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| 2006 | “Classics on Canvases” Olav Rockne, Saint City News, August 4 |
| 2006 | “Artist turns rusting relics into rustic art” Susan Jones, The St. Albert Gazette, July 29 |
| 2006 | “Weather doesn’t affect Art Walk” Susan Jones, The St. Albert Gazette, July 5 |
| 2005 | “Myriad full of uninhibited colour” Susan Jones, The St. Albert Gazette, September 10 |
| 2002 | “Myriad of visions from Profiles” Susan Jones, The St. Albert Gazette, August 10 |
| 2002 | “Visions of Wellness-Artist Statement” Tammy Woolgar, Alberta Society of Artists Exhibition Br |
| 2002 | “From Klimt to Crayons” Gisela Klar, Western Living Magazine |
| 2000 | “Alberta Society of Artists, The First Seventy Years” Kathy E. Zimon, University of Calgary Press |
| MEMBERSHIPS | |
| Member of:Alberta Society of Artists, Edmonton Arts Council, Profiles Public Gallery, WECAN Society | |
The artwork of Tammy Woolgar is represented by Rowles & Company Ltd., Alberta's Corporate Gift & Art Gallery in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
