Tom Mason

I have spent a lifetime involved in the creative process of countless compositions for the frame as an actor/writer in theater, film and television. Having also drawn and painted my entire life, my thought process is most often visual. It has been a natural progression for me to evolve into a painter of pictures. Academically, I've studied the Old Masters since I was a young man. Twelve years ago I took up the study of painting in oil with diligence and I am now painting full time. Portraiture interests me particularly in that all the elements I find compelling converge in terms of character study, pictorial composition and academic tradition. The artists I aspire to most, stood at the pinnacle of the genre in their time. I call them "The Big Guns". I have done master copies of the self portraits of Titan, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyke, Velazquez, Vermeer, Gainsborough, Sir Thomas Lawrence and John Singer Sargent. "The Big Guns" are mounted on my studio ceiling staring down at me as stern but benevolent guardian angels. Certain standards must be upheld.

1967-1970 HB Studio, NY, NY
Uta Hagen

2004-2010 Stevenson Academy, Oyster Bay, NY
Attila Hedja
Private Instruction, Brooklyn, NY
Nicholas Raynolds
Private Instruction, Glen Cove, N Y
Robert Armetta

1970-2013 Actor in Film, Television and Theater
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0556985/

Solo Exhibitions

2016 Millbrook School, Millbrook, NY - "Leaving Portraits"
2016 Westbury Kennel Club - "All Dogs"
2015 Oak Cliff Sailing - Oyster Bay, N.Y - "FDNY NIGHT TOUR"
2015 Oyster Bay Frame Shop- "All Dogs"
2014 Pratt Oval - Glen Cove, NY - "Soirée" - 2014
2014 Live Wire Arts, West Islip, N.Y - "Character Studies"
2013 Westfield Mall, Massapequa, NY - "Portraits"
2013 Astoria Federal Bank, Massapequa, NY - "Sacro Monte"
2013 Doubleday Babcock, Oyster Bay, NY - "Portraits"

Group Exhibitions

2017 Youth and Family Counseling Fundraiser- Oyster Bay, NY
2016 Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills, NY - "Figuratively
Speaking" - Award of Excellence
2016 SPLIA- Cold Spring Harbor -"# My LI Landmarks"
2015 Locust Valley Arts Fair, Locust Valley, NY
2015. The Coffee Project -26th St. Armory, NY
2013 Sunflower Fine Art Galleries, Manhasset, NY - Old Master Cinema
2012 "Labapalooza"- Cold Spring Harbor Lab