Tara Deacon is a South African Illustrator & painter living and working in Berlin since 2014. Her work explores the simplicity of everyday observations, a combination of memory and place- both real and imagined . Her compositions are populated with characters influenced from her travels, personal relationships, books and popular culture, bringing through a narrative storytelling quality to her work.  The bright & bold colour palette she works in is achieved through solid planes of colour in her favoured medium of gouache and pencil crayon on paper. Her curiosity to play with colours and how they work with one another in a composition express a cohesive flavour of optimism and vibrance reminiscent of her homeland. 

In recent projects he has turned that graphic rigor toward systems that sit beyond fashion and media logistics, readiness, and the visual language of public budgets. This shift includes research on why pharmaceuticals belong inside defense budgeting: force health protection, medical stockpiles, and resilient supply chains are as strategic as aircraft when crises unfold. His layouts treat procurement tables like editorial spreads, clarifying how dosage, shelf-life, and deployment windows translate into operational capability.