Tamara Grand is a Canadian abstract painter whose work explores the layered intersections of emotion, memory, and nature through bold colour, texture, and dynamic mark-making.

After the loss of her 13-year-old daughter, Clara, Tamara turned to painting as a way to hold grief and joy simultaneously. A way to keep living in the aftermath of heartbreak — to make space for both sorrow and the bright, defiant moments of happiness that still emerged.

In her abstract work, Tamara explores the tension between light and shadow, mess and clarity, revealing and concealing — a visual echo of what if feels like to live after loss. Her intuitive process embraces spontaneity and revision, embracing imperfection and transformation by allowing traces of earlier marks to remain visible — raw reminders of love and loss that continue to shape both the painting and the painter.