Creating connections to the natural world.
Born and raised in the small, remote West Australian town of Mukinbudin, now residing and working in Perth, Tammi de Rooy has been consistently captivated and artistically influenced by the natural environment. Portraying a diversity of wildflowers, Australian birdlife and landscapes, her works are both expressive and realistic depictions that consistently capture the imaginative mind. Her process is a journey, blending loose expressive mixed media sketches and expressive mark-making with more traditional detailed oil paintings, to explore concepts using layered and transparent imagery.
Tammi has been drawing an painting from a young age and always persued creative vocations.
Expressing interest in the visual arts from an early age, Tammi would often sketch the scenes and imagery she observed around her parent’s farming estate. Later, she entered the art specialist program at Perth College and went on to obtain a bachelor’s degree in graphic design at Curtin University. After working in the design industry, she travelled to Europe and decided to pursue a new creative outlet as a pastry chef, which soon after led to her opening a café and patisserie. After a fire destroyed the business in 2017, she returned to the visual arts as a means of coping with the loss, and eventually began pursuing art as a full-time vocation.
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Tammi de Rooy creates engaging artworks that highlight the beauty and complexity of the natural environment while sparking a desire to connect to nature both physically and emotionally.