EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 14 © 2016 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

4 BELOW: The Love Space Gives Is as Deep as the Oceans (2010), oil on linen, stretched over panel, 45” x 48”, from the Bunny in the Moon cycle, and featuring one of Tara’s goth-like female characters with a hole in her chest in the shape of a heart. lore. Though Tara's paintings are mostly figurative. There are three main elements that are recurring factors in most of her work: the first is water, as an element of life, be it as rain, waterfalls, sea or lakes. In Tara’s hands, this water might glow with a phosphorescent luminescence, as though coming from an underworld, but somehow surging with life too. The second element is space, empty space that surrounds us in the universe, sometimes with a cluster of constellations, sometimes on its own: empty, remote, and bringing forth a sense of loneliness. The third element comprises her female characters, often with a hole in the chest in the shape of a heart, as if telling us that they are heartless entities caught in a void, or have just gone through