Paintings
Paintings with Sculpture
Thom explains these works
My work upholds a continuum in art. The poetized, intuitive leaps can open the portals of transformation. The figures and symbols are ancient-oriented but also space-age, suggesting inner travel into another cosmos. The energies in the paintings and sculpture play off each other. They have a relationship when interacting.
When the faces began to appear in the paintings, I watched what was happening and eventually added a sculpted eclipse face—the Witness or Seer. Later Orpheus’s face with his scarified and serene eyes arrived. I’ve only done one painting so far with a full figure Orpheus. This freedom to experiment rises from my instinct to follow where the work leads me.
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The paintings and sculptures draw upon archetypal symbols and engrams, rooted in both ancient art and the human form.
— JM Welker
Curator, Art Museum, University of Kentucky
The Paintings with Sculpture Gallery