Work Showing: http://tomlohre.com/figure.htm

Contacts:

Tom Lohre, 513-861-4146, Cell 513-236-1704, 619 Evanswood Place, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220, tom@tomlohre.com, http://tomlohre.com

LeeAnn Kordenbrock, The Village Gallerie, 1870 Ashwood Circle

Ft Wright KY 41011, 859-331-5965

The Story:

            Tom Lohre, fine artist and native of Park Hills, Kentucky will show a collection of recent and earlier urban landscapes from Nantucket, Atlanta, New York City, Harrisburg, Seattle, Greenville SC, Cincinnati and Covington. He melds his formidable portrait skills with his accomplished “en plein air” manner.

For thirty years he has painted formal portraits that sometimes take upwards of a year to paint. The life size portraits are masterpieces of modern romanticism. The surface of the canvas is amazing to look at for Tom uses the white of the canvas and transparent tints to create lifelike form. Tom is obsessed with the surface of the painting. He emulates the great master figurative painter William Adolph Bouguereau. Tom started his “en plein air” work, artwork painted outdoors, after mastering his portrait manner. He honed his skills by painting outdoors everyday. He would paint scenes devoid of people even though they would be in very popular locations.

Now Tom incorporates well wrought figures into his “en plein air” work. The figures and composition are worked up in the studio and painted on location. Nature is Tom’s inspiration. He will take numerous photographs of people milling about and use these images as stepping off points for the figures he creates in his canvases. The ten inch high figures in the new work can be portraits. The small figure in the painting can look just like a person but the size prevents it from becoming to ponderous.