Art I

The First Group of Art Hanging at Med+

just north of Montgomery Inn on the left

9549 Montgomery Rd.Ste 100, Cincinnati, OH 45242, (513) 489-3737

Open M-F 8am-8pm, Sat.-Sun. 10am-6pm

Carolina Wood, 16" x 12", oil on board, 2006, $1,200

China Man, 10" x 8", oil on canvas, 2001, $400

This is the fourth version. The original was painted from life in the Quanzhou Zoo. Tom and his wife frantically searched for a scene to paint on their only day in old Canton. The streets around the hotel were all too crowded but nothing attracted Tom. They decided to go to the local zoo but even there nothing caught Tom's eye. Finally he was running out of time and started work looking at a field of red callas being tilled by a caretaker. The area around the callas contained the bird cages of the zoo. Tom had learned that many of the early settlers of the area lived in caves and some of these aviaries looked like caves. While he worked at a fever pitch Tom would hear all sorts of strange animal sounds along with Chinese Opera piped over the loud speakers. Tom and his wife stayed too long and were locked into the bird sanctuary. They had to climb over the fence and rush to the gates to avoid being locked inside the closing zoo.

Flemingsburg Kentucky, 6" x 12", oil on board, July 4th, 2005, $600

Evanswood Linden Trees, 20" x 24", Oil on canvas, July 2001, $700

Evanswood Cabin, 20" x 24", Oil on canvas, July 2006, $700

Emerald Isle, North Carolina, 16" x 12", oil on board, June 2005, $500

Price Home, 10" x 8", Oil on canvas, 1998, $200

Painted from the garage of the Price Home. Situated off a single lane road, the Price home overlooks a pastoral view of the Carolina Piedmont. Rolling hay fields are line with pine and scrub oak. A lone tall old tree rises up from the landscape and dares to keep alive for a hundred years. In the foreground, Rex the neighborhood dog who adopted the prices watches over the scene.

Ryle High School $200, April 24 1999, Oil on canvas, 10" x 8", $200

This painting was done from life from the Ameristop across the street. Tom had brought his sister there to participate in the Special Olympics. He painted a carload of boys taunting a short fat kid with a gun because of the recent shootings in Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado where two boys shot 13 people.