Tamara Thiebaux...
    born in 1963, is a landed immigrant from the US.  She has been an artist from a very young age, creating out of a need to invent worlds, for personal entertainment and survival, rendering in either caricatural, or realistic imagery.  Tamara enjoys working in the format of illustrating children's books; her inventive fanciful pictures cater to young people, and people young at heart! 

   One of her specialties is watercolor paintings of juxtaposed elements: a surrealistic inner-world imagery of object collections, assembled as curiosities.  She also has a reputation for work with a social 'bite', particularly concerning women's self-image, often with humour.

   Experience includes poster design and spot illustration for publications. 

   Tamara also enjoys three-dimensional creativity, such as theatrical masks and puppets, in the flavours of European theatrical Comedia del Arte, to Carnivalesque, and dolls, ranging from three inches to life-size, or bigger!

   Favoured mediums are watercolor, pen and ink, pencil, papier maché, second-hand fabric, acrylic paint, recycled and found junk.

   Tamara has exhibited in group and solo shows of both public and private galleries, and has been represented in several women's publications.  Some children's books, and prints and cards of her work, as well as that of Daniel Heikalo, are on display in a corner of their home.  Lyghtesome Gallery, in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, carries original paintings.  Tamara's mixed-media three-dimensional characters, Osbert Rigamarole & Albertine Sans Regret, who can be seen on the gallery page, sit in a coffee shop in Wolfville, NS.