Tom Winter is an established artist specialising in oils, graphite, and ink working primarily, from his studio at Hengistbury Head, Dorset. For almost thirty years he has been a freelance painter of Portraits, Landscapes, Figures, and Still Lifes.

The predominant theme running through all of Tom’s work is the personality of people and place. The motivation for all of Tom’s studies is the transformative effect of light. A lifelong enthusiast of the paintings of Caravaggio, he is fascinated by Chiaroscuro (the balance of pattern and light).

Tom’s studies are presented as: oil on board paintings; prints - lino cuts and intaglio etchings; graphite sketches; and pen and ink drawings. He also sculpts head studies from clay.

In addition to direct observation, paintings and prints are worked up from varied sources including sketchbook drawings, photographs, and, more recently, iPad sketches.

Having studied a two-year foundation at Shelley Art College in Bournemouth, Tom graduated from the prestigious Slade School of Art in 1997 (where he was taught, in part, by Euan Uglow) with a degree in Fine Art Painting with the subsidiary subject of Anatomy. Upon graduating, Tom was selected as a student recipient of the Sunday Times Singer/Freelander prize.

Over the following years, Tom has had work exhibited in The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual show (2010) and has shown his paintings locally as well as in London, Romsey & across the UK, including a one-man show (A Sense of Place) at the Bishop’s Palace, Wells Cathedral (2015), and a joint exhibition at Battersea Contemporary Arts Fair with Ben Winter (2006).

His work features in the private collections of (amongst others) Railtrack, Price Waterhouse Coopers and Sally and Ronnie Wood.

Alongside his freelance work, he has and continues to tutor students in Life Drawing, Portraiture and Still Life. He is currently a visiting lecturer for Arts University Bournemouth and for Bournemouth University (National Centre for Computer Animation) respectively.

Website: www.tomwinterart.co.uk

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