Tom Leytham Gallery

This Artist Accepts Commissions. Please contact by email

Contact Information:

Address: 50 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05602 United States

Phone: (802) 229-0430

Email: tbla@together.net

Website: http://www.tomleythamwatercolors.com

Artist’s Bio: Describing form and light has been a life long artistic passion - in fact I became an architect because I love to draw. Drawing and designing are symbiotic activities – to draw you must take something apart – to design you put things together.

The work is the product of a good stare. The eye creates the hierarchy of the image to tell the story of what interests me. My hand follows my eye, repeating the visual journey through the site. Just as these images in their incompleteness invite visual exploration through the use of partial views, negative space, dramatic perspectives and rich detail – I seek to create complex, pictorial environments that in engage the viewer’s imagination. They capture the excitement and dynamism of their creation.

The use of watercolor creates a tactile surface of color and light. The colors mix while wet creating the movement of color and light to mimic the movement of my eye. The result is using color to define the subject and the sparing use of line to define texture rather than mass. The white of the paper puts the compositions in motion, many have a pivot point that moves the eye through the subject.

Recent Paintings