seascapes landscapes
TOM DAVIES * PLEIN AIR STUDIOS * PLEIN AIR GALLERY (est. 1989)
About Tom Davies
Portrait of Jurek17" x 28"
$1600
ABOUT TOM DAVIES
An autobiographical sketch:
Born in 1949, I was raised in Shropshire, England, on the Welsh border. My family were sheep farmers. I pursued a variety of careers, in engineering, teaching, and wildlife conservation.
Then, when I was 40, I visited California, and met some artists who encouraged me to take up oil painting. As I had fallen in love with the California landscape (and with a Californian woman, now my wife) it all seemed to come together for me.
I have been happily painting ever since.
Initially we lived in the Carmel area, where my wife was raised. Her late grandfather, Theodore Criley, was one of the early painters who settled in Carmel's art colony, around 1915; I found his work particularly inspiring.
We then moved to Davis, California, while Molly attended the university; and I painted the flat prairie landscapes with the distant hills, the fields of row crops, and the beautiful old barns.
In 1997 we returned, and in 2000 moved to the old Garrapata Trout Farm (no longer functioning as such) where I've established a studio. Visitors are welcome!
(My autobiography would be incomplete without mention of the true love of my life: the game of cricket. As anyone who knows me is well aware, I am passionate about this game (I put the "fan" back in "fanatic") and my very favorite way to spend time is to be painting landscapes while listening to cricket broadcasts on the radio.)
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As a self-taught oil painter, I feel very fortunate that my art is appreciated by a wonderful group of people. My work has been shown in various juried exhibitions, and in galleries in San Francisco, Sacramento, Davis, Los Angeles, Fresno, Salinas, all the Monterey Peninsula cities; and abroad, in Manchester, England, and in Mezin, France.
My paintings are currently hanging in Carmel (Gallery North) and in Big Sur (Del Campo Gallery; the Roadhouse restaurant; and Fernwood).