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SAMERE - Still-life, florals, portraits, and giclee prints
Samere Tansley Artist... Except for the large pieces on the front page the balance of these paintings are archival and sold - however if you are interested in acquiring a piece of my work please let me know.
 
 
Artist's Statement
 
 
DECEMBER EXHIBITION
 
 
EVEN MORE RECENT WORK
 
 
RECENT WORKS
 
 
THE PORTRAIT
 
 
STILL - LIFE
 
 
STILL-LIFE...continued
 
 
THE PORTRAIT WITH STILL- LIFE
 
 
LARGER FIGURATIVE WORK
 
 
THE PORTRAIT WITH STILL-LIFE... continued
 
 
FLORALS
 
 
GICLEE PRINTS AVAILABLE
 
 
POSTER PRINTS
 
 
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SAMERE - Still-life, florals, portraits, and giclee prints

a tall floral arrangement

                                'FLORAL ARRANGEMENT - NATURE RECLAIMING HERTERRITORY'
                                                        43"x 65"   Acrylic on linen  2014-19


"FRUITS IN A LANDSCAPE" Acrylic on Linen 30"x40" 2020-22               


BANANA RED
                                                                             50" x 64" Acrylic on linen
                                                                                    2008 - 2017


                                      '...AND A TABLE LAID TO RENDER IT SACRED'
                                                       54" X 80"  Acrylic on linen
                                                                 2012 -2014


       ‘AND THE SHADOWS OF TWILIGHT GROW BROADER AND DEEPER UPON THE UNDERSTANDING’

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 46” x 72” Acrylic on linen   2008-12                                

SAMERE TANSLEY was born in the U.K. and trained as a painter extensively in English art schools, beginning at Stourbridge College of Art, graduating at Birmingham College of Art and doing post graduate studies at Central Schools and Goldsmiths College, London before making Jamaica her home in 1970.
For forty years she has embraced and influenced creative expression and the education process through her dedication to teaching art, first at the secondary school  level and then at Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.
Although the Jamaican environment is an important inspiration in her work and her iconic paintings of Jamaican women have gained a permanent place in popular culture, Samere’s imageries have reflected many influences and sources, including mythology, feminism, nature, figuration and the constructed realities conveyed by still-life
Samere synthesizes her view of the natural world through an unblinking attention to line and form, colour and tone, in order to create a calm space where the subject can be observed, rendered pure and still, outside of time and space, existing for itself alone. 
Her still-life pieces “evoke a quality of time, captured and stilled, caught in the reflected gleam of a silver knife, the falling shadow of a tablecloth’s soft fold, the pure white bowl holding the muted crimson of heaped ripe mangoes.” And her flower studies “build a private botany which is all their own, moving from the finest detail, (the powdered pollen dusting the stamen of a Regal Lily) to construct the lovingly wrought whole, where leaf and blossom, tendril and bud all combine to create a luxurious architecture, immobile and glowing”.

Samere has exhibited widely and her work has been included in Jamaican Art shows in Miami, Los Angeles and New York - with solo shows in Bermuda and the United Kingdom and many in Jamaica. Since 1984 her paintingshaveformed part of the Permanent Collection of the National Gallery of Jamaica and hang in many private and corporate collections in the Caribbean, the U.S. and the U.K.

the arist at work on her latest piece

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