Tamara Sigler loves the colorful prairie grasses, red dirt, and rolling thunderstorms where she was raised. She has spent years adventuring in her home state of Oklahoma and exploring the beauty of the Southwest and Rocky Mountain States. Drawn by the landscape colors and expansive views, yet forever pulled by the myriad details along a trail, it is often these trailside treasures, rocks and wildflowers, that form a structure for “lively” elements - such as corvids - in the artist’s still life scenes.

After receiving her BFA, Tamara entered a career in web design and digital imaging, painting at nights and weekends. Now able to devote energies to painting full time, it is clear the years of design, illustration and exploration form a strong foundation to her work. Her art reflects the strong colors and patterns inspired by her home and her travels, and showcase a contemporary approach to composition along with a love and respect for traditional painting techniques.

Tamara is a member of Oil Painters of America, Signature and Board member of National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, and a Cherokee Nation artist.

Her work has shown in the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum’s Small Works Great Wonders, and the Butler Museum of Art. Juried shows, include the NOAPS Best of America Small Works International, Bosque Art Classic, Heroes and Outlaws, Oil Painters of America’s Western Regional and OPA Eastern Regional Exhibition, which awarded her the Animal Award of Excellence. Other top awards include Best of Show for “Trail’s End”, Bauhaus Prairie Gallery's Master Artist Award, and the Rusty Gables' Native Star Award. She is included in Linda Millier Bosteels’s book The Spirit of the Buffalo.

TAMARA SIGLER, NOAPS

Designations

National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society: Board Member, Signature Member

Oil Painters of America, Associate Member

Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition Member

Cherokee Nation Artist

Juried and by Invitation events:

National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum’s Small Works Great Wonders 2016, ’17, ‘18

Butler Museum of American Art 81st National Midyear 

Butler Museum of American 79th Artists Annual 

Oil Painters of America Regional Exhibition 2021, ‘22

National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society Best of America 2023

National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society's Best of America Small Works International 2018, ’20-‘23

31st Bosque Art Classic 

Heroes and Outlaws: 100 Oklahomans by 100 Oklahoma Artists

Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition 12x12

Awards:

Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional, Animal Award of Excellence

NOAPS Best of America, Award of Excellence

Boldbrush, Fav15%

PleinAir Salon, October 2023 Finalist Top 100

Chisholm Trail Gallery, Honorable Mention

Bauhaus Prairie Gallery, Master Artist designation

2019 Open a New Year, Bauhaus Prairie Gallery, 2nd Place

2018 Open a New Year, Bauhaus Prairie Gallery, Best of Show

Bauhaus Prairie Gallery: Still Life Show 2018, 2nd Place

Bauhaus Prairie Gallery: 2018, Award of Merit

Rusty Gable Gallery, Native Star Award 

Southwest Art Artistic Excellence, Runner up