| Tom Henderson Smith |
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Tom Henderson Smith |
| As a Cornwall-based artist since 1980, my paintings are available to view at a variety of art exhibitions and also at the Turn of the Tide Studio in St. Just-in-Penwith in West Cornwall which I share with fellow painter / printmaker Gabrielle Hawkes. I am also pleased to offer my paintings and prints for sale online on my website www.hendersonsmith.co.uk. |
The style or approach to painting that I use is one based on a sense of design that was confirmed for me by two formative years spent in Italy after graduating from Art College in the 1970s. At the same time a sensuous enjoyment of colour is important to me, stemming as it does I think from a childhood spent partly in the tropics when my family lived in Africa. Cornwall has brought together these personal tastes of mine through its landscape, culture and over-arching quality of maritime light. |
Born in Yorkshire my early education was in Huddersfield. I gained an honours degree in Fine Art at Newcastle-upon-Tyne University and on graduating in 1971 was awarded a Bunzl travel scholarship to study in Italy. I returned to the U.K. in 1973 and lived for seven years in Bath, training as a teacher at Bristol University. |
I taught Art in Bath, London and Cornwall from 1976 to 1999 and was head of Art at Mounts Bay School, Penzance from 1982 to 1999. I was elected to membership of the National Acrylic Painters Association in January 2007. I've been a practicing Buddhist since 1983. |
Solo exhibitions:
1972 Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
1972 Newcastle-upon-Tyne University, UK
1974 Bristol Art Centre.
1975 Bath Art Centre.
1976 Plymouth Art Centre.
1983, 1985 Penzance Art Centre (now the Acorn).
1999 The Schoolhouse, Morvah, Cornwall UK (2-person exhibition).
2001, 2003, 2006 The Mariner's Gallery in St. Ives.
2006 Shaping a Vision of Cornwall, Bodmin Shire Hall, Cornwall.
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| A wide range of my work can be seen at the Turn of the Tide Studio in St. Just. |
Group Exhibitions:
1977 Royal Academy.
1978 Federation of British Artists.
1981 Newlyn Orion Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall UK.
1986-1993 Visions and Journey's Gallery, St. Just, Cornwall UK.
1998 Great Atlantic Mapworks Gallery, St. Just, Cornwall UK.
2001 The Camelford Gallery, Cornwall UK.
2002 Truro Museum, Truro, Cornwall UK.
2002 "Crowns and Chasms", Botallack Counthouse, Botallack, Cornwall UK. |
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