Tammy Mae Moon's portrait
Tammy Mae Moon: "We are inundated with soulless and dead imagery these days. Create what is in your soul, the world needs it."
"Medea" - 12x12 acrylic on panel
2012
Working on her painting
BPP: Who are
you? And who you really are?
Tammy Mae Moon: I am Tammy Mae Moon. I am a self-taught artist in Lexington, KY. I am a mother, a daughter, a wife, a
day-dreamer, a procrastinator, an eccentric hermit, a sorceress, a want to be
socialite, an enigma.
Mary, Queen of Sorrows - 16x20 acrylic and ink on Gessobord panel
"Morgan Le Fay" -
16x20 acrylic on canvas
2012
"Dakini"
11x14 acrylic, ink, gold leaf paint on hardboard panel
BPP: If you could say
something important to others who were listening, what would you tell them?
Tammy Mae Moon: I think I would tell other aspiring
artists to just stay true to yourself.
It is easy enough to create what you think will sell, but that kind of
work often lacks soul and depth. We are
inundated with soulless and dead imagery these days. Create what is in your soul, the world needs
it.
"Branwen" -
11x14 acrylic, ink, gold leaf on masonite panel
"The Bridge" -
24x30 acrylic on canvas
24x30 acrylic on canvas
"The Mystic"
9x12 acrylic on canvas panel
BPP: What is your true dream, the one that keeps
you up at night and if one day it were to come true you would feel peace and
calmness in your heart?
Tammy Mae Moon: I am not sure that my true dream
will ever come true. The thing that
keeps me up at night is trying to touch the unknowable. I am obsessed with mysticism and believe that
there are these secrets out there that I am constantly searching for. I look mostly in ancient history and myth for
these secrets that I know the ancients knew a little more about than we do
today. I am looking for magic because I
know it exists, but because we are so distracted by our busy lives we can't find
it anymore. I think when life was
simpler, when days were endless and you could spend hours listening to a river
flow, it was easy to find magic everywhere.
When I finally uncover that magic and paint it into my art I think I
will have more peace in my heart.
BPP: How is life
currently for the people in your country and what would you wish for them and
for the planet at large?
Tammy Mae Moon: We are exactly one month from the
next Presidential election. Right now it
feels like there are these two different countries in the United States, the
Liberal States and the Conservative States, and each one hates the other one. I
imagine this is how the country felt right before the Civil War. I think the United States could set a huge
example for the rest of the world if we were to come together and stop acting
like a bunch of junior high kids arguing constantly. We could open a huge doorway for peace to
flow into the world if we could set a better example. I fear it won't happen anytime soon
though. I am afraid of the possible
anger that could be evoked by this election more than any other election in my
lifetime.
"Nimue"
16x20 acrylic on masonite
2012
16x20 acrylic on masonite
2012
"The Owl Keeper"
16x20 acrylic on panel
16x20 acrylic on panel
"Shapeshifter"
14x18 acrylic on panel
2011
BPP: If you had a
chance to be a child again would you choose the same life?
Tammy Mae Moon: I was always drawing as a child, but I was not
encouraged to be an artist. I started to
pursue art much later in my adult life than most artists. Sometimes I wish I would have decided earlier
to be an artist, but then I wouldn't be the artist I am today. Every life experience I have had makes me
paint the way I do now. I of course
always want to be better than I am now, but I am also grateful for where I am
now.
Totem 17
Totem 22
Totem 11
BPP: What was the exact moment that you realized
what you wanted to do with your life?
How did you feel at this very moment?
Tammy Mae Moon: I
was working as a massage therapist in my late twenties and felt that my path
was a path of a healer. But I also felt
completely unfulfilled with my vocation.
In astrology they call this time in your life your "Saturn
Return". Saturn makes about a 30
year cycle so in your late twenties it returns to the position it was at your
birth. At this time people that are not
fulfilling their soul's purpose often feel a greater pressure to find that one
thing they are suppose to be doing. At
this time I considered myself only a hobby painter. I sit down with an amazing intuitive reader
at this time and she said my soul's purpose was to heal through my art. When she said that she spoke deeply to my
soul. She planted a seed that I nurtured
for the next six years teaching myself to paint. I don't struggle with wondering what I am
suppose to do with my life anymore, but there is still the daily struggle with
how to keep doing it.
"Lakshmi"
"The Fortune Teller"
"Dia de Los Muertos"
BPP: Would you like
to tell us something we didn’t ask until now?
Tammy Mae Moon: I am honored to be a part of this
great project. There are so many
beautiful people doing amazing things that go unnoticed every day. I am happy to be able to share my art and my
dreams with others and look forward to reading about all the beautiful people
you feature in the future.
Tammy Mae Moon"s sketch created especially for BPProject
Tammy Mae Moon's portrait
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