"MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD" 24" X 32" OIL

"HEADWATERS OF THE CONEJOS RIVER" 24" X 36" OIL. This idea came from an overlook above the Platoro Reservoir.  What a remarkable place with lots of history about the headwaters of the Conejos River in Southern Colorado.

ARTWORK THAT PUTS A SMILE ON YOUR FACE, BRINGS JOY TO YOUR HEART, AND PEACE TO YOUR SOUL. 

TOM is an Award-Winning Artist (in Various painting mediums), in several National and Regional Art Shows and Competitions.

Winning, (BEST USE OF COLOR & LIGHT), 2024 NOAPS International Small Works Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM.   BEST OF SHOW: "Winter White" Reserve Our Gallery 12/2024.   BEST OF SHOW in 3 Plein-Air Events: the 2011 Ala Prima Plein-Air Festival, Westcliffe, CO, the Victor Celebrates the ARTS 2011, Victor, CO, and the SouthPark Plein-Air Festival also in 2011, Fairplay, CO.   He has also won BEST of SHOW at the Paint the Town Plein-Aire Event in Florence, CO in 2017 and in 2018. 

Other PLEIN-AIR Events, including The Steamboat Art Museum Plein-Air 2017.    The Telluride Plein-Air Festival 2005-2008, where He won the Southwest Art Magazine Choice 2006. The Sedona Plein-Air Festival, 2004,2007,2010, in 2010, the Judges' Choice Award.   MY ADD IN PLEIN-AIR MAGAZINE AWARDED FOR MY BEST USE OF LIGHT & COLOR, FOR THE NOAPS BOA MINIATURE EXHIBITON 7/2024

Tom was Awarded Best of Show by the CWS Colorado Watercolor Society in 2007.  Various Museum Exhibits include the Historical Society in Helena, Montana, The Brinton Museum in Sheridan, WY The Holter Museum in Helena, MT   The Old West Museum in Cheyenne, WY The Governor's Art Show at the Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO the Jackson Hole Lodge and the Wildlife Museum in Jackson Hole, WY 

He is also a well-respected Workshop Instructor both, in the Studio as well as an Outdoor Painter (EN-PLEIN-AIR).   He has taught at the Fechin Institute at The Branham Ranch in San Cristobal, NM, The Barn Site Studio in Kewaunee, WI, The Farmington Art Association in Farmington, NM, and The Amelia Island Art Association in Fernandina Beach, FL.2013 He also Judged the 50th Annual Shrimp Festival Art Show that same year and Numerous other Regional Exhibits in Colorado and TX 

As a native Coloradan, Tom enjoys traveling around the country looking for Images of Inspiration, for his next series of Paintings. HE HAS A LARGE COLLECTION OF PLEIN-AIR PAINTINGS TO WORK FROM. (COMMISSIONS AVAILABLE).