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artist statement

My painting is expression reflected from the integration of ideas created within that come into being through the act of painting. Discovery of these ideas take place on the canvas.

As a Christian artist, I strive to integrate my faith and my painting and to be a Christian presence in a secular art world.

background

thomaswalton
Born May 13, 1937 in Columbus, Georgia

education

• Early art studies :: Mary Goddard :: '48 - '55
• Auburn University :: studied painting and drawing :: '64
  studied under Harry Lowe, Hugh Williams, Claude Reeves, and Brack Walker
• Additional study in printmaking with Gerry Pletcher, University of Tennessee, Nashville
• Married, Wife Marcia, Children, Tom Jr. and Sara

Paintings by thomaswalton have been exhibited in national and regional exhibitions and are showcased in many university, institutional, and private collections.

Color, Texture, Composition:
The Paintings of Tom Walton

Tom Walton's paintings continue to prove that a gifted designer may reach continually toward perfection. Using new shapes, new colors, and new textures, the journey never ends. There are always new harmonies to create with the assurance gained from experience. A dominant color may be all it takes to bring disparate shapes together. A vertical thrust may have suggestive power to allude to figures and objects in decisive movement. Horizontal sweep may elicit a different response - an enveloping calm, or a quiet mood. Walton gives us a network of textures and form that makes each section of his canvas stand in its own space, as if it were placed there always, rightly and beautifully related to its surroundings.

Beginning a thoughtful new journey with each canvas, after initial brush work he allows the painting to direct him, as a composer might begin a piece of music with a theme, and then follow a line of repetition and variations. The finished canvas offers a theme that has been developed richly, and then resolved, - the final overall tone left ringing in the ear. In some of these canvases, bold colors may speak stridently. In others, the palest of color plays second fiddle to shape and texture. Landscapes of the Mind - there are rarely any references to what is not there. These are paintings that sing hymns of praise to the creative process.

- Louise LeQuire