Tara Nix

Tara Nix also known as "Jinx" in contemporary works is a Toronto-based visual artist specializing in painting and mixed media. Before attending Sheridan College for the Visual and Creative Arts program she also received her BA from the University of Ottawa in General Arts and Art History. Tara has participated in group exhibitions in Oakville, Mississauga, and Toronto, and a solo exhibition with Helloart. While making her debut at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair in 2024.
Her diverse and sensational style challenges the constraints of aesthetics using landscapes, grati, mixed media, pop art, and experimentation. Her art is designed to produce a voyeur experience that conveys the atmosphere of the diverging locations and settings she portrays. Influenced by the functionality of light and colour in art she constructs visual spectacles that engage and entertain its viewer. Tara intentionally uses light and colour to emphasize high contrast, depth, light sources, and movement.
"My subjects are where I find them".

Artist Statement
I began painting landscapes in impressionism but aimed to challenge myself by shifting my painting style towards abstraction. By developing compositions that are based on out-of-focus points of view and capturing nature’s ‘colour swatches' using bokeh patterns and shades. Using the overlaying circles in bokeh to recreate the softened out-of-focus points of light. Painting with acrylic open paints and matte medium to disrupt the opacity and saturation while capturing the excitement and atmosphere of the environments depicted.