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FEATURED ARTIST - April 2004Tom PerkinsonArtist's Statement:My Impressionist paintings are created from my imagination and are painted intuitively. I am not painting so much a specific location, but rather evoking the feeling of a convincing scene. I paint a hillside and visualize children running down a hillside and I paint them. I make a landscape stand on its own before I introduce the figures, somewhat like building a stage and then bringing on the actors. The subject matter usually includes a mother and child, or a family and the figures are typically narrative in nature, because I allude to a relationship between the figures.
Some of my favorite artists were Homer, Sergeant, William Merritt Chase, Potthast, the painters in the Boston School, and particularly the important painters of southern Indiana such as T.C. Steele, Vawter, Schultz, and Forsythe. I was born in Indiana and these artists painted the landscape in which I grew up. When I would see one of their paintings as a young adult I could visualize walking into their paintings. I could feel the warmth of a summer day or the coolness of a summer evening shower.
More importantly, their influence on my work helps me to realize that I am creating paintings that reflect a singular American experience. It is my desire to communicate my personal artistic statement clearly, through painting scenes that celebrate the beauty and innocence of life."
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