Thomas Sundberg
Alden, New York
Welcome to my World of Places. A Place to Encounter a Calm Quietness. Allowing us Space to Breathe.
Message
A little history is in order. Let’s commence with Thomas, a Californian eight-year-old with a bottle of red ink and a crow nib pen. He’s currently a long way from this scene. Now 67 years old in the Buffalo, New York vicinity, it has been a long journey. Tom (let’s get comfortable) still works in Ink, and has added Watercolor, Pastel, and several other media to his repertoire. Primarily he is a Landscape painter. Practicing in the Studio and Outdoor (Plein Air) painting/drawing. A native westerner, he spent his days exploring the huge landscapes of the Sierra Nevada, Mojave Desert, Colorado Plateau Red Rock country, as well as the Rocky Mountains. From 1985 to 2001, he participated in various exhibits and in several editions of The Sierra Art Shows in Kernville, California. With a brief adventure for 1987-1989 in Casper, Wyoming; showing locally and earning county and state fair awards. Life, in 2006, brought him to the Buffalo, New York area. He acquainted himself with the Eastern landscape and participated in the local art community. Quiet the last several years for many reasons; is currently seeking opportunities to create work and to exhibit. Exploring and capturing and painting the impressive, intimate Eastern landscape.
“So, Let’s Go Buffalo”
Statement
The Landscape, for me, after fifty years of exploring, drawing and painting, has changed. Landscape is an endless source of visual information and inspiration from the least detailed to the grandest vista. That all this art was about the Landscape has become partially untrue. In the last decade, my landscapes have become increasingly internally generated, each precise location being mostly obscured. I can only react, reflect and render only a portion of what creation shows. I believe the creation has that Joy in it. I am currently and for the last decade have been painting not a locality one can visit but a reflection. Landscape paintings are still being made. I travel and draw and paint in the landscape when possible, most of the results are less than apparent on any map.
Well, I hope this clarifies “The Where I have been and Where I am going.”
Thank you.
“The Mountains and The Desert call me; I will find a way to go.”