Toby King-Thompson

Toby is a 24-year-old contemporary artist from London. He has a rare perceptual phenomenon called synesthesia. Toby sees words, names and digits in colour. Thus his fascination with colour and its perception has been truly in-born. As well as being a resident artist for Lacuna Art; The Van Gogh Gallery in Madrid has recently signed a contract of collaboration with Toby as their international emerging artist. Toby was invited to exhibit his artwork at a major Contemporary Art fair in Luxembourg in September 2020. This event had approximately 20,000 visitors from around the world. Toby has also exhibited at the first fully digital multimedia gallery called M.A.D.S. in Milan during Fashion Week in September. In addition, he is exhibiting in the world's first fully immersive and fully interactive virtual art gallery in November.

Toby is a skilful and versatile artist in a vast variety of mediums and styles including fine art, post-impressionism and abstract expressionism. He has completed paintings of landscapes and seascapes in oil paints and acrylics. As an International Relations graduate and masters post-graduate he has a strong interest in global affairs. Toby has accomplished works depicting a political perspective, which has...

Toby is completely self-taught. He prefers to take his own direction of creativity which awards him greater freedom and more clear and pure view of what he wants to achieve. Toby's inspiration has always come from what he thinks and sees in his daily visions as a person with synesthesia.

International Collaboration with the Van Gogh Gallery (Madrid) Exhibition in Luxembourg - September 2020

International Collaboration with the M.A.D.S gallery in Milan during Milan's fashion week - September 2020

Collaboration with Virtual Artists & Robots of London in the world's first fully immersive and fully interactive virtual art gallery in November 2020