Tara Versey
- Faculty
- Bespoke Courses Faculty
- Alumni, 2010
Biography
Tara Versey was born in London, where she now works as a painter, printmaker and maker. With a BA in Fine Art and additional training through the Royal Drawing School, she approaches her work through the foundational lens of drawing and an interest in human experience.
Her work has been exhibited in England and Europe, and is held in private collections.
Awards received include the Richard Ford Award, and a Rome Scholarship from the Royal Society of British Artists. Notable commissions have also provided fresh perspectives that inform and enrich her personal practice.
Tara maintains an active studio practice centered on artistic exploration, whilst also working as a member of the senior faculty at the Royal Drawing School.
On drawing
I draw as a response to what I feel, see and experience. When teaching I try to encourage deeper looking and an awareness of the relational quality of things. I feel this to be important both in the world around us and on the surface we work. The strengthening of hand eye coordination allows for more freedom in drawing, and marks made have a potential to be like the notes in a piece of music. To draw is an energy beyond words that is hard to describe.
In an attempt to put down some words from my thoughts....
Drawing is a desire to penetrate deep feelings of intensity within myself and the world around me – in the hope that I may find something beyond the surface. It is something rather than nothing.
Drawing calms yet stimulates. Drawing is feeling. Drawing is seeing. Drawing is concentration and engagement. Drawing is meaningful. Drawing is discovery. Drawing is fundamental to my work and me – it is the foundation to lay before anything else can arise.
