So that was 2025!

My paintings of 2025

Eight years of Tamsin Stuart Art in January 2026. Eight years I have thrown everything at my business.

I’ve learned lots in that time and it’s been fun, still is, immensely. There really is nothing that compares to where I go when I create.

I head into 2026 having changed my business model quite a bit. The most significant change being I’ve gone back to work, part-time paid work. To give me and my family some financial stability, yes. But mainly to take any pressure off the creating process.

Working your arse off doesn’t equate to people buying your art. Willing your work to catch someone’s eye and make them feel something special doesn’t equate to people buying your art.

My painting is still as important to me as it ever was. Probably even more so. I know what a fundamental part of me it is. And because I have even more demands on my time now, I have a heightened sense of how critical it is to safeguard my creating time and how essential it is to my whole set-up.

I paint to help me make sense of the world, to feel calm and in control. I kickbox for the same reasons, I walk my dogs for hours across the fields for the same reasons.

My creative passion is that deep breath I take to stabilise myself. Every time I go there it reminds me that there is something more profound to experience than an endless list of chores.

Selling my art has only ever been a way to keep creating for my own sanity, to express the things that I feel deeply and to revel in the beauty of things in a more personal way than using words, and engaging with the outside world in my own way. No pretence, no superficiality, no agenda.

And so I’ve paused trying to make a living out of it for now. My lovely little part-time job allows me to do that and to carry on living my art passion on my terms at a time when the art market is shrinking.

So I’m keeping it pure. Less socials, less events, even more focus on painting and a deeper understanding of my own mission because I've been at this long enough to know what works for me and what doesn't.

Nine non-commissioned originals created this year along with five commissions, all on a range of subjects that have inspired me and caught my creative eye.

Can’t wait to see what another year of painting passion brings and a heartfelt thanks for sticking with me on this journey.

Not going to lie, 2025 hasn’t been my favourite year, for reasons totally unconnected with art that I don’t care to go into. Suffice to say, to those who made it so special, thank you, to those who have tried to steal my peace, I forgive you.

Feel I've been tested this year. But it's all good as it just makes me train harder, fight braver, grow stronger and stay truer to myself than ever before. The dark days brought by others make the bright days I create shine brighter.

This year has taught me that having courage and kindness is paramount, even more so when others don't.

Peace, love and happiness to all in the New Year and beyond. Tamsin xx

My commissions of 2025