ABOUT MY WORK
“My work is largely inspired by the lines and shapes of both urban and coastal landscapes, For me, subtle texture, collage, layering, flat forms and color are markers for the personal and psychological experience of the subject.

My art practice is influenced by both abstraction and Neo-Expressionism, particularly aspects related to nature, spirituality and the subconscious. These have power and drive my process.”

ABOUT TOM
"I have been making art all of my life. Growing up I had an endless supply of paper, pencils, and paints always at the ready on a small card table in the corner of the living room. In high school, I took over a part of the family garage as my studio. My father could build anything and my mother was a talented seamstress and artist. From them I learned that if something doesn’t work, you keep learning and trying. Seriously, what great parents!

What does this have to do with my art? I embrace a “discipline of accident,” using whatever happens on the canvas in my process. Making marks and forms I create intuitive, layered abstracts, often collaging dried paint that I peel and scrape from old palettes and found paper, onto my paintings.”

After a 2017 studio visit, Raphaela Platow, Director and Chief Curator of the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Arts in Cincinnati, OH, commented, “I love that Tom is not afraid to embrace and use color; his paintings are so hopeful.” Tom’s work has been shown in several US cities including New York, Miami, Santa Fe, Cincinnati, and in the San Francisco Bay Area; it is in private and corporate collections across the US. He holds a B.S. in English literature and a M.A. in psychology both of which inform his art making.

Tom and his husband live in their Victorian home in Northern Kentucky across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, OH with Mavis, a Norwich Terrier and Blanche, a rescued West Highland White Terrier.