Tommy Thompson

@: tommy@tommythompsonart.com
Website: http://www.tommythompsonart.com

Tommy Thompson was an architectural and commercial illustrator for more than 30 years before moving on to painting oil landscapes in 2002. He now concentrates on painting pastoral landscapes that include horses, figures, and various forms of architecture.  His paintings are impressionistic in style and evoke a sense of peace.  His painting, “Swinging Over the Harpeth,” was selected as part of the FAV15% (jury’s favorite 15% of the entries) in the December 2009 Fine Art Views Painting Competition.  Leu Art Gallery of Belmont University, Nashville, TN, selected Thompson’s work for their exhibition, “Saving Paradise,” June 1-August 5, 2010.  His painting, “Painted Trail” was juried into the Energen Corporation’s 11th Annual “2010 Wonders of Alabama Art” Exhibition/Competition.

Thompson has studied under some of the nation’s top painters including Kevin Macpherson, Ken Auster, Kenn Backhaus, Roger Dale Brown, John Budicin, Scott Christensen, Jeremy Doss, Ned Mueller, Michael Shane Neal, Jason Saunders, and Dawn Whitelaw. Since 2007, he has been invited to show his work in solo exhibitions by various art associations and dealers in Birmingham, and Guntersville, AL; Memphis and Nashville, TN; and Starkville, MS. Thompson is a member of the Oil Painters of America, Portrait Society of America, American Impressionist Society, Landscape Artists International, Art for Patronage, and the Chestnut Group, a nonprofit alliance of landscape artists of Nashville, TN. The artist’s childhood near Starkville, MS, instilled in him a love of nature. Now living in Florence, Alabama, Thompson receives inspiration for his plein-air landscape paintings from the natural surroundings.