Despite being raised in a family where her protective parents reassured values and securities, Tamara grew with a hard feeling of curiosity for humankind, an urge to find out all the actual mechanisms responsible for the choices that people made in life. The attitude of discovery and search, together with her curious eye, brought her to explore her native city right in the streets, to capture any possible hint for her to assemble the jigsaw she was looking for to untie her knots.

It took not too long for her to understand how art was a potent tool for her to reach this aim.

Since her earliest years, Tamara would draw or paint all the feelings and features she wished to explore, finding in this technique a way to deepen and understand human nature.

At school, for instance, Tamara was a kid in search of disruption of the conventional tools. Indeed, she skipped many school classes to participate in alternative ones, all creative oriented, such as theatre and dance. She was a good dancer and performer, believing how art was the right place always to find a response to human doubtings.

Her artworks, indeed, explore all feelings of human struggle and emotional language, aiming at studying the body reaction to a range of different emotions. Tamara defines her creative vision as moved by a balance of conscious versus subconscious, a trial of setting the inputs that leed to making choices and creating changes.

All the experiences while in high school led her to leave Belgrade in 2014 to deepen her art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, where she lived for three years studying art and fashion design. This excursus was very important for her understanding of herself. The Academy taught her indeed how to pursue a target through discipline and study. But, differently from the majority of her classmates, she also had to work to support her education. Her young age could make her afford the lack of sleep and tight hours to distribute between study and work, while her teachers didn’t share the same opinion. Despite their critiques, she learned how her culture of being raised in a country of suffering and struggling had strengthened her skills. Tamara considers herself a child of change, born in between drastic cultural behaviors, which all gave her the possibility to enrich her adaptability in life. The Academy taught her a lot in terms of technique, and she still thanks that strict approach she had to deal with today.

Despite this, in 2017, she decided to get back to Belgrade, where she still lives and works. Tamara feels a great attachment to her country as she believes that people’s attitude is the one thing that will bring a nation to emerge and rise again.

Since she got back in Belgarde, she would finally commit to her paintings and personal works.

At the moment, Stankovic is working on a personal series using combined techniques as paper, collage, paint, and ink. For the last few years, she explored herself being in this world, through metaphors such as masks or references to fashion as a tool to study human behaviors and body language.

When asked which the main feature has changed in her works throughout the years, she says: “As time passed, I felt more inspired to set myself free from the boundaries and structure on how you make and develop art. At the moment, I’m manlily focusing on capturing gestures, using smaller drawings and illustrations. I push myself to explore on each possible level the combination of techniques.”

Inspired by Alexander McQueen’s approach to fashion without boundaries, she also considers herself a big fan of Sandro Botticelli, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, known as Witkacy, and Salvador Dali. Tamara finally finds in wild nature and raw gestures a valid tool to explore, as in that thin line between conscious and subconscious – which she considers the must place to visit when in need of inspiration.

Tamara Stankovic is currently part of st-Art Amsterdam.

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Karis comes from a family of creatives who has always understood and encouraged her artistic values. She undertook an illustration academic course, which led her to produce mainly hand drawings then taken into a digital finishing approach. Illustration has always been Karis’s primary technique until her approach to painting. Nowadays, indeed she will consider herself as an illustrator with a painter’s soul. The main reason why Karis is driven by producing art and finds in the painting process the great satisfaction is to have a disposable space to outlet her emotions.

She has an intuitive approach to life, and as she moved to Amsterdam pushed by a genuine love for the city, in the same way, she feels drawn into painting personal, intimate subjects. To Karis, a canvas is a journal, space where to share with oneself a pure feeling. As Karis’s family resides in Wales, a country hugely influential in her work, and as she loves the nature and history of Wales, Karis enjoys to explore the relationship with familiar subjects and. Karis has a very attached and sentimental personality and likes to fill her canvases with these emotions. Her illustrations though, are something she does more lightheartedly and usually inspired by the women in her life, while her paintings are to her more profound. She fills these with symbolic expressions that “comes directly from the heart,” as she says. Most of her paintings indeed are outcomes of notes and poetry she previously sketched, so we may, without a doubt, state that her tone is of personal storytelling.

Karis Evans currently has another fulltime job outside her art, which is of team coordinator for a famous fashion brand. As she recently joined St-art, this helps her to recenter her attention to art. Karis organizes painting workshops for St-art twice a week. She plans to exhibit more in Amsterdam, especially with her latest body of work Details in the Renaissance, an ode to the renaissance and her love for the details in life. However, it is the Pre- Raphealites that has always been a fascination and a consent source for inspiration since she was a young student.

Karis is also working and experimenting with fashion illustrations, but we will talk more about this soon.

In the meantime, follow her on Instagram.

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