Fantasy of Lady Luck Painting

A self-taught painter, Tom's work uses the power of imagination to seek out the core elements of the subjects he paints. "My work is grounded in the need to celebrate life, and to express our sense of existence through the recognition of the transforming power of colour and light," he says. Arrangements of shape, line, pattern and colour conjure up powerful expressions, sometimes dreamlike and at peace sometimes exciting and dramatic. The pieces do not always represent an actual moment in time, but are rather the result of a process of reflection, recollection and reinvention, a distillation of experience.