Untitled Title, 8×10 ink, acrylic and graphite on paper. SOLD

Lunar Void, 10 x 14, ink, acrylic, charcoal and graphite on paper. SOLD

Three Stages of Absence – 001, 8×10, ink, acrylic and charcoal on paper.

Three Stages of Absence – 002, 8×10, ink, acrylic and charcoal on paper.

Three Stages of Absence – 003, 8×10, ink, acrylic and charcoal on paper.

Butterfly Decay, 11 x 15, ink, acrylic and charcoal on paper.

Thank you again to every one who has been so kind to support my work, this exhibition has been alot of fun and a great experience.

Nepenthes have decided to keep it on display untill mid – March. Thank you Abdul!

307 West 38th St.
New York, NY 10018
212 643 9540
shop@nepenthesny.com

Thank you.

I did this fun wolf head on an awesome guy from Mexico, I drew my inspiration for the piece from my friend David M Cook http://dmcook.tumblr.com/

Alot of his work is wildly colored and beautiful detailed – but he has also be making a series of woodcut/etched tattoo drawings, i really like his take on this style.

When he isn’t being a pervert drawing dirty pictures he makes amazing art, he never stops creating – really inspiring. (some of his work below)

more of his work after the jump – http://dmcook.tumblr.com/

These two print editions were created as part of my current exhibition at Nepenthes NYC – Origins of Solitude. They will be going on sale at a random time this weekend on www.artifactpublishing.com

Thank you.

I took a few pictures of the art before it was hung, they aren’t great shots but you’ll get the idea. This was my first solo show and I found it really difficult to create a full and varied body of work, in total I created 30 individual pieces for the show but in the end we narrowed it down to 24. I gave 1 to Abdul for helping and curating the exhibition, he was and is the man who made this happen. the other 5 I have hung at the shop and will do so until they sell (I will post pictures of them later on). I think the larger works where the most challenging, I took the approach of using them to create atmosphere adding strength to the smaller pieces.

These first three where painted with acrylic and ink, with a little acetone xerox transferring for pattern layout. they are on l’aquarelle 1198lb 40 x 60″ cold press paper. (I haven’t put any watermarks on the images so you get to fully see them, please feel free to re post them but also please give credit where appropriate, thanks!)

Celestial Horizon A – Ink, Acrylic and Xerox on Paper
40 x 60 inches

Celestial Horizon B – Ink, Acrylic and Xerox on Paper
40 x 60 inches

Celestial Horizon C – Ink, Acrylic and Xerox on Paper
40 x 60 inches

These next three are 24 x35 Arches 300lb cold pressed paper, they were created after looking at Shuzo Takiguchi’s Decalcomanias. I had been working with and looking at decalcomanias for a while but upon seeing  his work I was really moved. I subsequently used them as a starting point for this exhibition – the title Origins of Solitude comes from one of his pieces, Origin of Solitude, 1962.

Origins of Solitude A – Ink and Acrylic on Paper
24×35

Origins of Solitude B – Ink and Acrylic on Paper
24×35

Origins of Solitude C – Ink and Acrylic on Paper
35×24

These next three I created as an experiment, I wanted to work with the concept of creating some images that looked like fabric patterns, so I had a series of digitally created tessellating patterns giclee printed onto 62×42 arches cold pressed 180lb paper. I then hand colored and disrupted them to give an abstract overlay.

Abstract Horizons A – Hand colored single edition giclee print
42×62

Abstract Horizons B – Hand colored single edition giclee print
42×62

Abstract Horizons C – Hand colored single edition giclee print
42×62

The previous large paintings were used to complement the latter framed paintings, these are all of varying size (I forgot to measure before hanging the show…)

For these I used a varied selection of combined techniques, decalcomania printing, acetone xerox transfers, acrylic mediums and sumi ink washes. All these were framed in antique frames from the 1920′s-40′s, collected over the past year – I used these frames to give the individual paintings a rougher yet more complete feel.

There were also two framed prints from an edition I will be selling on Artifact very soon, these framed ones where the first in the editions and are for sale at the gallery.

Rorshach Decalcomania Hexahedron Letterpress
17.5 x24.5 Edition of 20 signed and numbered

Rorshach Decalcomania Mandala Silkscreen
22 x 30 Edition of 100 signed and numbered

The Exhibtion will be on display untill the middle of Febuary, for any info please contact the gallery  -

Nepenthes New York

307 West 38th St.
New York, NY 10018
212 643 9540
shop@nepenthesny.com

And last but not least here are some shots from the opening night taken by the talented KOKI SATO – www.kokisato.viewbook.com

Thank you again to every one who came out, and to all the guys at Nepenthes who made this possible and worked to make it such a great night.

I will post pictures from the opening and all info about the other prints and paintings tomorrow. Thank you!

307 West 38th St.
New York, NY 10018
212 643 9540
shop@nepenthesny.com

As I mentioned before I have an exhibition opening Tuesday 17th January, I am going to post lots of info on it it over the weekend with some images of the paintings.

There will be an edition of 20 letterpress prints and an edition of 100 silkscreen prints that will both be available online and at the gallery.

I will also have an edition of 30 free hexagonal prints that will be given away to the first 30 people to put there name on a list at the opening (they will be shipped after the show comes down) more info on this soon!

For now here is a couple of camera phone shots of stuff in progress…….

All these images are in black and white due to the nature of the quality, i will post proper photographs of the paintings this weekend.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my work.

Thomas.