Shady Boat
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Seaside Cottage
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Tom is a Juried Artist Member of the California
Art Club and one of the founding members of the BayWood Artists, a
group of highly respected landscape painters who share a deep
commitment to nature and to doing what they can to help preserve the
remaining open spaces of the Bay Area. Tom's traditional plein-air
landscapes are evocative of the early California Impressionists such
as Percy Gray, Edgar Payne, William Wendt, and Granville Redmond.
Tom is a native of Pennsylvania
and has been a working artist since 1972 when he began as a
billboard artist in Florida. After attending the Colorado Institute
of Art, he became a commercial artist producing designs and
illustrations for numerous clients. While a commercial artist he
constantly produced and exhibited fine art paintings. After spending
5 years in the South Pacific, he returned to California in 1982
where he attended the Academy of Art College in San Francisco and
pursued an illustration and fine art career.
Now he is recognized as one of California's outstanding plein-air
artists. Painting on location wherever he goes he captures the
glowing beauty of the natural world, the wonderful light and
atmosphere and the changing moods and seasons with his rich palette
and skilled brushwork. |
Sunny Day
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Simple Splash
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South Kona
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"The purpose of an artist is to interpret reality through his eyes, to redefine
it, reorganize it, and reinterpret it. Art has had many movements and trends
throughout time. Presently we are living in a period of history where every
aspect of art relating to trends, movements and styles has been obliterated, now
to the acceptance of all types of art, to the very defining of what ART is.
Painting is the visual creation of a given moment. My objective is to capture a
fleeting light, or mood of the moment capturing the color and feel of a location
and atmosphere. I believe a good paining should be a temporary escape into a unique visual
reality. My goal is to continue to develop this technique to its natural evolution." |
Swimming at
the Beach
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Haleakala
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City of Refuge
sold
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Haleakala Falls
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Black Sand
Beach
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End of the Beach
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