Tara Zalewsky-Nease

Artichoke on Pedestal, Oil Painting

2025

Artist Comments
One of artist Tara Zalewsky-Nease's favorite genres is the kitchen still life. A prolific cook and painter, she creates compositions of singular ingredients, capturing them with her signature gestural brushstrokes and rich jewel tones. This painting features a succulent artichoke and a tiny serrano pepper.

About the Artist
Tara Zalewsky-Nease draws on the soul of the desert to create her impressionist landscape paintings. While earning her Masters in Fine Art Painting at the University of New Mexico, she experienced the magical energy of the expansive panoramas and the timeless geography of the southwest. She hiked, journaled and captured reference photography during her time there, as well as during her trips to the Pacific Northwest, France and Japan. Two common motifs in her works are hummingbirds, which are totems of good luck, and foxes, which allude to her young son. Tara has had solo exhibitions in Sante Fe, Albuquerque and Taos. She recently built a custom backyard art studio at her home in Pittsburgh, where she paints full time. When she is not creating art, she teaches art classes at several universities and also enjoys playing the piano and spending time with her pets and family.

Words that describe this painting: artichoke, cooking, serrano, pepper, bright, table, vegetable, ingredients, food, impressionism, still life, cuisine, oil painting, pink

Artichoke on Pedestal
Tara Zalewsky-Nease
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Painting wraps around edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on back
2025
12 in. h x 9 in. w x .75 in. d
0 lbs. 6 oz.