Lemons to Blessings

When life handed me lemons at 13, I decided to turn the sour into something sweet. I broke away from the norm and completed my final years of study online. I dedicated all of my free time to art, my passion. This took my life on a journey I never expected, filled with many blessings. It still amazes me to think that if it wasn’t for those lemons, those moments of sour; I would not have ripened into the person I am today and may not have met my best friend, my loving husband, Jacob. Embrace the lemons of life with a hopeful heart, for within them lies the potential to create a canvas of joy, sweetness beyond your imagination.

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Tara is an emerging contemporary Australian artist and illustrator. Her main mediums of choice are acrylic, gouache and watercolour. In her competition pieces, she often creates self-portraits that contain allegory and symbolism to convey stories and memoirs from her life. She has been awarded prizes and has been featured as finalist in competitions Australia wide since she began painting in her earlier years. Recently, Tara Royle (previously Bursic) was awarded the Emerging Artist Prize in the Brisbane Portrait Prize for 2022, with her self-portrait - 'I created the Storm.'

Please feel free to contact Tara for inquiries regarding private commissions.