Exhibition

Tom Gillham: Through the Looking Glass

30 Mar 2021 – 11 Apr 2021

Regular hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00

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Colonnade House

Worthing
England, United Kingdom

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**The exhibition is only viewable through the windows on Warwick Street and High Street**

Tom Gillham’s exhibition features a fresh series of paintings, all created within the last year of lockdown, made in his garden studio, during a global pandemic.

About

“The title of my exhibition “Through the Looking glass” has multiple meanings, similar to the layer within my work.”

The artist his bright images appear to be reflections of nature, so may be he wants to hold up of a “mirror” to our world.

The colourful shiny painting offer fleeting impressions, almost handle-held snap-shots taken on a journey or from glancing out of windows, combinations of memories of alternative worlds and nature walks – one of the few permitted activities during lockdown periods.

“Living in Sompting I’m so lucky to be a next to the wonderful South Downs with its ancient hillside farms and forts nearby within the National Trust Park, and only a short walk to be beside the beautiful beaches of Adur and Worthing, along the sunny West Sussex coast”.

The name is taken from a Lewis Carroll’s book Alice through the looking glass which has come to mean “often the opposite of what is normal or expected”. Many of Tom’s paintings reflect emotional states as much as material aspects of physical life and are created spontaneously. The artist is fascinated by the power of images that convey feelings about things that are often tricky to put concisely in words. Therefore, this exhibition is an opportunity to look through the gallery glass and take a peek inside the artist’s sub-concious mind.

Tom’s shows a fondness for quick drying acrylic applied thickly with palette knifes that welcome potential mistakes and embracing happy accidents, shows an influence of abstract artist Sir Frank Bowling RA. Tom’s paper on Bowling for his Masters of Fine Art at University of Brighton (2019) was selected to be included within the official archives of the Royal Academician.

Tom currently juggles a full-time job with family time and finds peace by creating paintings and artwork in his Sussex studio. He hopes his art connects emotionally with others now and in the future.

You find out more on Tom’s website and instagram.

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