Baker Artist Portfolios

Tara Gillespie (b.1983, Baltimore, MD) is an abstract artist with a passion for contemporary art. In 2018 she started mixing her own acrylic paints and experimenting with resin, amongst other materials, and her practice has evolved since. Her studio is based in Timonium, MD, and she exhibits her work in the DMV fine art festival show circuit. Tara also reveals her techniques in her studio offering in-person fluid art classes for adults/children and offers these classes as an instructor at Manor Mill in Monkton, Maryland.

My work is inspired by my own fantasies and aims to connect our world with the spiritual. Beauty, mindfulness, and dreams are themes I currently explore as well as energetic exchange. In my process I exploit the properties of paint and resin to make ethereal works that mimic and transcend reality. I call my work “Dream Topography” because I feel my art pieces evolve to resemble 3-dimensional maps where the viewer searches through layers of form in nature including landforms, minerals, water bodies, plant life, cellular structures, and atmosphere, to get to the surface of a dream (which is formless). In this space, I believe our spirits are rejuvenated and I think this experience is why human consciousness “gets lost” in daydreams.