
Oil on Canvas
50cm x 60cm
Brief synopsis:
"Judgement becomes impossible without the past, for without it you do not understand anything".
Choose not to be the judge of those around you, you chose for them to be there, choose ONLY to judge your OWN feelings. Accept not the judgement of others of you, this shows your eagerness for the judgement to serve you, an accepted label to be packed away, hidden for a time in which it can be used as attack. No judgement can be put in place unless it serves you and no judgement is but a reflection of yourself. "How could they do this to me? The answer is they didn't." By reacting in any way or form to another's misperception of you gives them approval of their judgement and its acceptance, "It is your duty to establish beyond doubt that you are totally unwilling to side with (identify with) anyone's misperception of you, including your own."
Quick we are to judge, based on past experience or potential future situations, but in judging "the reality of others at all, you will be unable to avoid judging your own." And in doing this we are making a choice, possibly rejecting someone, we mistakingly identify this as "organising" our lives, being Captain of our souls, we have "no idea of the tremendous release and deep peace" living without judgement. "The strain of constant judgement is virtually intolerable" and yet we hold on to it so dearly. May it be, that we think we are the author of reality? I assure you, we are not...
Tamantha Williams is an artist based in South Africa. Driven by her connection to the environment and how it interacts with the beings that occupy it drives the art work she produces. Her primary medium is oils but often combines charcoal and sewing into the art works. Having finished her degree in Landscape Architecture her love for art out weighed her chosen profession at that stage. Starting her career in the art industry her journey led her to UNISA Visual Arts Degree.
Qualifying as a Landscape Architect in 1994, she worked within this field in South Africa and Botswana and lectured at the University of Pretoria [TUKS] in the Landscape Design module. She moved on to opening her own GraphicDesign Company and co ran it for 7 years.
She has actively been part of group art exhibitions since 2019. Whilst studying Visual Arts she won an award in a Recycled Art Exhibition. In 2021 she was awarded with the selection of top 100 artists in the Sasol Signatures Emerging Art Competition in South Africa.
For her, Art is one place where desire to express and explore creativity becomes truly tangible. She is primarily inspired by thoughts of the world we live in, the truths that we believe exist, and how we live these truths. Her work is based on human relationships and interactions in the physical and spiritual emotional context, these She questions and turns upside down and then comments on it through her art. Her question: "How do we live the truths we decide on, how do we base all of our lives on a past - that does not exist, with concern for a future that is unpredictable?" Through her art she investigates basic thought processes about guilt, forgiveness, love, time,conflict, isolation, eternity, separation and the ‘What is human?’ construct.
Tamantha Williams
Artist, an expression on earth.
Feel free to contact me for an artwork, if you like what you see I am available for commissioned work. If however you require a pretty picture, consider a photograph as an option.