Tom Leytham

Tom Leytham moved to Vermont from NYC in 1973 to open his architectural practice. He became an architect because he loved to draw. Drawing and design have a symbiotic relationship: to draw you have to take something apart and to design you put things together. Describing form and light has been a lifelong artistic passion. He is a self taught draftsman and watercolorist. Shifting to computer drafting was a welcome excuse to return to his love of painting and ending a hiatus from showing of over 30 years.

The use of watercolor creates a tactile surface of color and light. The colors mix while wet creating the movement in color and light to mimic the movement of his eye. It is a magical process to watch the image appear out of the paper in sessions typically 12 hours at a time and over 3 or 4 days. The work has evolved in scale from 9x12 to 12x18 to 18x24 TO 22x30 to explore the detail, mass and light on the subject. The result is using color to define the subject and the sparing use of line to define texture rather than mass.

There is a mystery about his subjects that invites exploration and imagination. These are places and objects of entropic beauty. Some of them have been restored, some repurposed and some are being co...

Pratt Institute 1967 - Bachelor of Architecture

1981 Windsor Gallery - Windsor, VT [solo show]
2009 315 College – Burlington, VT
[juried, group show]
2010 Norwich - The Other Working Landscape
[solo show]
2011 SPA – Barre, VT [2 juried shows]
2015 Vermont Governor’s Gallery [7/6-9/31/15] solo
show
2015 Bennington Museum [10/24-12/31/15] solo
show
2016 Central Vermont Medical Center [solo show]
2016 Boston Society of Architects [May 10-August
2, 2016] solo show
2016 Southern Vermont Art Center [July 9 – August
28, 2016] solo show
2017 Vermont Technical College [January 10 –
February 10, 2017] solo show
2017 Arkell Museum –Canajoharie, NY [June 16 –
August 16, 2017] solo show
2017 Edgewater Gallery – Middlebury VT [juried
group show]
2017 Green Mountain Watercolor Show – Warren,
VT [juried group show] award
2017 True Grit Gallery – Middleboro, MA [juried
group show]
2018 AVA Gallery - Lebanon, New Hampshire
[solo]