Meet Tassie.
Tassie Notar is a painter of mostly abstract landscapes.
Before retiring, I was an award-winning television producer at the CBC and an independent documentary filmmaker. I produced news and current affairs for over thirty years, and spent my last years as executive producer of CBC’s Marketplace. I started painting in earnest in 2016 when I began living in Prince Edward County, while continuing to have a part-time presence in Toronto. Finally, with the gift of time required to learn new techniques and apply the discipline I developed in my professional life, the artist started to blossom.
My experience living on farmland surrounded by trees, with barely hidden murky water holes, provides me with constant and varied inspiration for my Bogs and County Landscape themes..
My medium of choice is acrylic paints. I am drawn to abstract landscapes, exploiting what’s already present. I use colour and lines to try to evoke a feeling of movement and playfulness.
Go figure: I have been a downtown city person most of my life who is now obsessed with the beauty and chaos of the natural world. As well, the urban landscapes that I had taken for granted no longer escape my gaze.
I continue to take various local classes and have studied at the Haliburton School of the Arts and the Toronto School of Art. And I continue to get so much inspiration from other artists.
AWARDS
In her very first entrée into publicly displaying her work, Tassie’s Backyard Bog painting won a 2021 Jurors Choice Award as part of the annual Arts in the County show.
The Artist Within.
Painting has been part of my DNA from my childhood when I was totally enamoured with my father’s efforts in our basement studio in Montreal. I have vivid childhood memories of quietly watching my father paint after he came home from work. This was the beginning of my fascination with creating on canvas. He painted in oil and studied with one of the Group of Seven.
This was painted by my father in the 1960s. He would paint when he came home from work.
This is one of my mother's watercolours.
And my sister also paints!
This scene was painted by my grandfather.
