Tamara Armstrong

Tamara Armstrong is an Australian visual artist, living and working from her purpose-built art studio at Tamborine Mountain in the Gold Coast hinterland of Queensland. After making a career shift from being a teacher to a practicing visual artist – she has even been accepted into the Portia Geach Memorial Award – Australia’s most prestigious art prize for female portrait artists. She now melds her academic background in education, with her creative pursuits to teach art classes for all. Hear how she made the shift and how she has made her passion, her profession.