Tatiana the Live Painter

Tatiana katara has been creative her entire life, And it was likely due to the environment she was raised in. Both her grandfather and grandfather were Frank Lloyd Wright apprentices and her mother was a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago. Tatiana was also influenced as a child by the spiritual sciences of yoga and Tibetan Buddhism. A child of consciousness, Tatiana’s awakened artistic spirit pours into every brushstroke she makes. After studying commercial art and design, as well as acting, Tatiana worked in the film, theater and music industry as a set designer and scenic painter. She is most noted for her black light live painting which she has been doing since 2003. At that time, she was the first and only black light live painter to be found in a Google search. Tatiana was the first featured live artist to paint at the 10,000 lakes festival. She has also performed as a live painter at the Dreamtime festival and Arise Festival in Colorado, the Grateful Dead Ball in Chicago, Phases of the Moon, Cosmic Ascension, and annually at Project Earth Festival, Shangri-La, and the Harvest Festival at Harmony Park since they started. She has had the honor of painting with many of the most notable Live painters of our time, Including Alex Grey and Allison Grey, Robert Randall, Morgan Mandala, DELA, and has had her fairy art featured At the Chalk Farm Gallery in Santa Fe with Brian Froud, David Delamare, Gil Bruvel, Daniel Merriam, Andrew Gonzalez and many other well-known Visionary Fantasy artists. Tatiana Katara's fairy work is in in the book Fairy Homes and Gardens, and For over a decade, she instructed at various botanical gardens including Chicago Botanic Gardens and Olbrich Botanic Gardens, With her work gaining global notoriety as a fairy sculpture artist. Tatiana has also live-painted to many of the greatest jam bands of our time including: The Allman Brothers Band, Widespread Panic, Dave Matthews Band, the String Cheese Incident, Government Mule, Jerry Garcia Band, Yonder Mountain String Band, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Umphrey’s McGee, Phil Lesh and Friends, Rat Dog, Keller Williams, Medeski Martin and Wood, Trey Anastasia, Tedeschi Trucks Band, galactic, Les Claypool and Friends, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Leftover Salmon, Tea Leaf Green, Hot Tuna, Steve Kimock Band, Railroad Earth, The Big Wu, Matisyahu, Garage Mahal, Particle, Mofro, Dopapod, Heatbox, That One Guy, Wookiefoot, Beats Antique, Buddha Bomb, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Emancipator, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Future Rock, the Feelin', Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, JJ Grey and Mo Fro, Jackie Greene, John Wayne and the Pain, Joe Russo‘s Almost Dead, Kayla Scintilla, Carl Denison’s Tiny Universe, Kung Fu, Leon Russell, Martin Sexton, Melvin Seals, Matisyahu, MC Yogi, The Motet, Nahko and Medicine for The People, the Polish Ambassador, Papadosio, Particle, Pert Near Sandstone, the Ragbirds, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Terrapin Flyer, Trampled by Turtles, Trevor Hall, Xavier Rudd, Yonder Mountain String Band, Arrested Development, and Antibalas.