Watercolour Mastery: Building Confidence and Exploring Advanced Techniques

 

 

Tom is a full-time artist, typically making figurative art in a lively style, using a wide range of painting, drawing, and printmaking materials and methods. Born in Gloucester, 1976, he grew up in the countryside, was self-taught in drawing and painting, did Fine Art at Falmouth, but, graduated without the confidence to work in art, instead, spending the next 14 years doing other things, including working in a kitchen in a Christian community, a hospital, a special needs school, and teaching English as a foreign language. As a single parent with 2 small children, this became unsustainable, and after having some time out, Tom went self-employed as an artist in 2013. Since then, he has taken part in various solo, group, and open exhibitions, and won prizes including in plein air (outdoor) painting competitions. Much of his work is made outside, on the spot, and so tells the stories of beaches and streets with the people, birds, dogs, and weather... that he encounters there. Because of this, he has developed techniques that allow him to work very simply and at high speed, with loose lines and lots of light and movement. Much of his work is in water-based media- watercolours, pen and ink, combined with drawing. This is something that he loves to do, and he enjoys trying to pass on some of his enthusiasm for doing this, and enabling them to paint and draw with more fluency and freedom.