Thom Surman

Thom Surman
b.1958, New York
62 year resident of Southern California

Trained as an advertising designer at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California.

A lifetime painter and a veteran designer delivers his unique perspective to the canvas. Thom Surman has been involved in the creative arts for most of his life. His extensive background as a designer has allowed him a unique perspective as a painter. Integral to his art are local themes of earth, sky and water. Furthermore it is Surman's juxtaposition of these classical elements that create his poetic vision through paint. His paintings are intended to record the interactions and constant fluctuation between these components, blurring the divide of landscape painting and abstract fields of color. Thom is interested not in static scenes but to forge a movement of light and color, within a single painting or across a series of paintings.