Tabby Ivy

CARLTON, OR

A love of creative expression and experimentation has taken her on a journey from black and white photography, to figurative watercolors, and for the last twenty years, to expressionist landscapes and abstractions using oils. A self-described autodidact as an artist, her ongoing creative curiosity and refinement of style has brought her work recognition and collectors from across the country.

Tabby’s work is greatly influenced by her black and white photography background; conveying a mood or scene using a limited palette and subtle tonal variations within her compositions. Describing her work as “contemporary expressions of nature’s beauty”, she strives for her paintings to be evocative and engaging, while leaving a bit of mystery for the viewer to ponder.

In 2019 she began a two year collaboration with Damon Falke, a writer living in the far north of Norway. In summer 2022 their exhibition, Between Artists, Life in Paintings and Prose opened at the Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalispell, MT. A companion book was also published, now in its second printing.

After thirty years in Montana Tabby now calls Carlton, Oregon, home.