Artist’s statement

Dean Thomas

I love working in oil paint, it’s slipperiness, it’s tendency to gradation when overworked, reminds me of dusk rain on old pavement. I studied the masters: Caravaggio, Ruysdael, Manet; I could stare for hours, fascinated over Velasquez’s rendering of light refractions on a glazed ceramic pot: how he captured back light resonating through the ear of an old pauper. The orange-ochre of Corot’s Spanish landscapes, and Hals’s subject’s ruddy cheeks of inebriation, inspire me to seek to capture in paint such little pieces of the grand creation of the universe.

Museums

Smithsonian Institute

CA Museum of Natural History

Portland Museum, Louisville KY

Galleries

Andrea Schwartz, San Francisco

Rain Heron, Los Angeles

Orbitello, Los Angeles

KORE, Louisville KY

Education:

Winner National Scholastics Art Exhibition 1975 -76

Louisville School of Art scholarship 1977-78