Tamara Wong is a figurative artist. Though she works in a range of media to further her understanding of the human form and its grace, it is through painting and sculpture that she channels these insights. Her paintings created from live models, self portraiture and photographs are expressed through vivid colours and a desire to show the energy of brush strokes and love of the human body. She captures this same beauty and grace in her wax and plaster studies.
Tamara has been studying art since childhood through community classes at the National Art gallery and similar facilities. Her Grandmother, a professional oil painter has cultivated a desire to be true to the figure through realism. While attending Canterbury Arts High School her instructor Tim Desclouds particularly imparted her devotion to pushing expression into whatever medium used. During her high school years she briefly worked at an animation studio where she met and later became the assistant to the Ottawa based photographer Jef Harris. He became her mentor in the marriage of digital and traditional media. After attending Trent University in Peterborough for a year, she continued her studies at the Ottawa School of Art where she was enamoured with the teachings of the sculptor Dawn Dale and painter Lucia De Marinis, who improved her confidence and technique in their respective mediums.
Currently attending the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, she is working through her third year of a Drawing and Painting BFA degree. Some noted professors that have helped her along her way include: Stephen Tulk (anatomy), David Owen Campbell (portraiture), George Boileau (sculpture), Stan Krzyzanowski (sculpture), Claude Miceli (sculpture), Natalie Waldburger (drawing), and Leanna Mclennan (creative writing).