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Welcome to the site of Tamara Clark and Eden Art, providing professional illustration and design services as well as high quality cards and prints. A portion of proceeds go toward the protection of species and ecosystems. Thank you for your visit and please check back often to see the latest creations and news.
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DEEP SEA ENVIRONMENTS
Support an amazing range of organisms as deep as 10,000 metres.
Deep sea "Rat-tail" fish lives at 5500 metres and uses its chin to find food.
read more..
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 NEW TO SCIENCE - Giant Spider living in Middle Eastern Sand Dunes
Thought to be the largest spider in the Middle East with a legspan of 5.5 inches, this creature builds doors out of sand and waits in an underground den for unsuspecting prey such as lizards and insects.
read more..
 Flat-headed cat with webbed feet is as comfortable in the water as an otter but is in danger of extinction due to loss of its Malaysian wetland habitat. read more..
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A High Seas Marine Protected Area (MPA) has been established in the Southern Ocean, near Antartica, to protect a marine region that contains more species than the Galapagos Islands. The area is 94,000 sq. Km and will allow for long term studies on climate change and other environmental issues. read more..
 The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the government of Cameroon helped create the Takamanda Park on the border of Nigeria to protect the world's rarest gorilla. There are less than 300 Cross River Gorillas, a subspecies of the Western Lowland Gorilla, remaining in the wild. Many primate populations are declining drastically due to hunting, habitat destruction and political unrest. read more..
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 Thousands of acres of rainforest are replaced for the growth of palms, used for the production of palm oil. Palm oil is used in everything from food items to lipstick and demand has tripled in the last 5 years. This habitat loss is detrimental to the indigenous people, soil, plants & animals in tropical countries including Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.
more from Rainforest Action Network..
more from Scientific American.. |
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Order Cards and Prints here >>
or visit any of the following Cape Cod locations :
Summer Art Markets:
Falmouth Arts Alive: Mid June
Falmouth ArtMarket: Tuesdays 2 -8pm
Town Hall Square, through Labor Day
Cataumet Artists Fair: August 1: 10-4
76 Scraggy Neck Road · Cataumet, MA
Shops & Galleries in Woods Hole:
Fishmonger's Restaurant: large framed fish prints,
Pie in the Sky Bakery, prints
Under the Sun, Woods Hole
~cards & prints
Shops & Galleries in Falmouth and
around the Cape:
Booksmith, Falmouth
~cards
Butterfly Garden Boutique, Buzzards Bay
~cards
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit
~prints
Cape Cod National Seashore , Eastham
~cards & prints
Paper Tyger, Falmouth
~ cards
Yankee Ingenuity, Chatham
~cards & prints
HOLIDAY CARDS >>> |
Green Anoles Lizard (Anoles carolinensis) |
Other RECENT PROJECTS
Website designed for the Semester in Environmental Science (SES) at the MBL's Ecosystems Center >>
Illustration produced for
The Ocean Alliance
View illustration >>
Visit Ocean Alliance website >>
Highlight:
~ Featured artist in Cape Cod Magazine's Sept/Oct 2008 issue.
~ Featured artist in Falmouth Enterprise, August 14
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SUMMER 2010 CLASSES
Tamara is teaching Introduction to Natural Science Illustration at the Falmouth Art Center.
Current 4 week session:June 16-July 7
Wednesdays 4:30-6.
Next session: Aug. 4- 25
Ages 10 to adult.
Register! >>
Spring 2010: instructor in Science Illustration for the Semester at Sea Program (www.sea.org) in Woods Hole
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Current and Upcoming EXHIBITIONS
Glories of the Gardens: Group show A summer-long celebration of the gardens-to-be at Highfield Hall.
Woods Hole Art Show: July 25-31, 2010
Woods Hole Community Hall.
10-8 daily. Opening reception July 25
Tamara Clark, organizer |
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RECENT EXHIBITION Curated by Tamara Clark , current President of the New England Chapter of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators.
Visit GNSI-NE>>
Natural Science Illustration: Darwin to Digital
September 21-October 31, 2009
Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA
An exhibit featuring juried works by 21 members of the New England Chapter of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Historical images from the MBLWHOI Library Rare Book Room and student work by Julia Child's illustration class. Talks and workshops also offered.
VISIT EXHIBITION WEBSITE for details>>>
Listed as a "Best Bet" in the Cape Cod Times, discussed in many media outlets and widely applauded by the local and scientific community for the range of talent, historical viewpoints and information on the field of scientific illustration.
Recent work featured in the
Encyclopedia of Life
View EOL images together >>
Visit exemplar species pages on EoL>>
go to the EOL >>
Cafeteria roenbergensis
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"Whenever we try to isolate anything in nature, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." -- John Muir |
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Images are © Tamara Clark, all rights reserved by the artist unless otherwise noted.
EoL images are licensed under Creative Commons, some rights reserved.
Please contact info@tamaraclark.com for re-use. Web design and development by Tamara Clark |
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