WINDHOEK– Namibian artist, Jacquie Tarr, presents Sketches from Life exhibition at the Franco Namibia Cultural Centre (FNCC)’s Restaurant La bonn starting on Thursday.
Jacquie will be exhibiting a variety of small watercolour paintings and sketches of animals, landscapes and still lives. All proceeds from the exhibition will be donated to the animal welfare project “Have-a-Heart”. She draws inspiration from nature and global environmental issues. For her representational, semi-abstract and abstract paintings she uses charcoal, watercolour, acrylic, pen and mixed media. “My drawings are an inspiration from Namibian wild spaces and global environmental issues. I also like to draw animals and the human figure. I have not had much opportunity to study art formally but get great pleasure and inspiration from reading about and observing the works of Courbet, Edvard Munch, Frantisek Kupka, Käthe Kollwitz, Frank Auerbach and local artists such as Susan Mitchenson, Barbara Böhlke and the late Fritz Krampe,”says Jacquie.
While she has participated in several group exhibitions since the late 1980s, this is her first solo show. “I usually donate proceeds from the sales of my artworks to local charities and this specific exhibition serves as a fundraiser for the Namibian Have-a-Heart project, a non-profit animal welfare organization that encourages responsible pet ownership, and offers spay and neuter services to pet owners with little or no income. My art has been bought for private collections in Namibia, the UK, Ireland, USA, Germany and South Africa,” says Jacqieu.
She was born in Johanessburg South Africa in 1957 and moved to Namibia in 1982 where she worked as a research scientist on the Skeleton Coast and painted in her spare time for Die Muschel Gallerie in Swakopmund.