Tara McPherson is an artist based out of New York City, and is the founder of the Cotton Candy Machine art boutique that you are looking at right now this very second! Creating art about people and their odd ways, her characters seem to exude an idealized innocence with a glimpse of hard earned wisdom in their eyes. Recalling many issues from childhood and good old life experience, she creates images that are thought provoking and seductive. People and their relationships are a central theme throughout her work.

Photograph by Guenther Schwering