About Tamara: 

Tamara Gerkin attended Glendale Community College in Arizona  where she learned drawing and composition under Professor Goto's tutelage and how to paint from Professor Ahrendt before transferring to Arizona State  University where she earned a BFA Degree (Fine Art) in 1986.  She later continued her studies in NYC at the Art Students League and Nat’l Academy Of Art & Design,  where she studied under some of America’s top Portrait & Landscape Painters.  

In addition to painting, Tamara has worked as an Art Consultant and Gallery Owner/Director in Scottsdale, Arizona.  Today she resides in Port Richey, Florida where she specializes in creating exterior and interior colorful and realistic "Trompe l'oeil" Tropical Landscapes and Marine Life Wall Murals.     

Since 1997, she has completed 83 murals that are in corporate and private collections nationwide.  Since 1986, she has created numerous canvas paintings and pencil drawings that are in collectors homes and offices world-wide.  

              

 "Great art picks up where nature ends. But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures." 

 

      Marc Chagall 1887-1985

 

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

           Salvador Dali

City Of New Port Richey, FL

     KOA Fiesta Key, FL 

Announcement: I am sad to inform you that this island has been sold to a developer that will be tearing everything down and rebuilding condos, my murals are included in the destroying process... I will be producing prints of select portions of the murals, if you are interested in having one for a memento, please contact me and let me know which of the images you are interested in.  Put "KOA" in the subject line.

Please visit the Current Projects  link to  view rms. 1-20  

Oil on panel  

 Port Richey, FL