Tom Henderson Smith

About me: Painter and ex art-teacher

Location: Based in Cornwall in the UK

Interests: Apart from painting - people, Buddhism, walking (accompanied by Rags my border Collie) - that's a start!

Media I work in: Acrylic Gel (by which I mean using lot's of Gel medium so that I can build up multiple layers) and Charcoal drawing.

Contact email: enquiry@hendersonsmith.co.uk

Website: http://www.hendersonsmith.co.uk

Biography

 First a bit about my activity as a painter over the last year or so:

I've recently been exploring my fascination with all those aspects of landscape that suggest human presence. In the part of Cornwall where I'm based it's a fact that centuries of farming and a long history of mining have left a clear imprint. The themes I've been able to use have therefore ranged from field patterns to ancient sites, from clusters of buildings to well worn paths as well as a tragic and haunting image from the history of tin and copper mining. So I came to think of the pieces I've been making lately as lived-in landscapes and chose that expression as the title of my next show (more about that later). Of course another lived-in aspect came from the fact that translating these images into paint or charcoal involved literally living in these compositions and finding that lingering over colour mixtures, paint layering, brush and finger marks began to coax a feeling of life into what I was doing. This is something I relish and that has gradually led me to a sense of each piece beginning to have a life of its own.

For more about where I come from see http://www.hendersonsmith.co.uk/about.html and for info about exhibitions etc there's http://www.hendersonsmith.co.uk/exhibitions.html . If you go to my homepage: http://www.hendersonsmith.co.uk/index.html you can download a free invitation to the private view of my Lived-in Landscapes show in Bath in April. It would be good to meet you there.