Tom Thewes takes his cues from the romantic masters of artistic dissension of the early Twentieth Century, a time when the greatest creative minds of the era banded together and splinted apart again and again in an attempt to break ties with the perceived nostalgic aesthetics of the past and constantly re-define the very nature of art.
Like the early Twentieth Century painters who inform his style, Tom bridges the art/life divide by creating still images that are anything but still. Painted facets and planes – the visual equivalents of tectonic plates – shift and collide, capturing the dynamic forces of the real world.
