Tom Hammick

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Tom Hammick's work probes the human condition in pulsating color, pushing the materiality of each medium into a contemplative narrative. There is an undeniable oscillation between the quietude of the subject matter-a lone figure on the beach, three figures tending a garden-and the artist's distinctly exuberant palette. We as viewers are left with an electrified stillness.

Moving in and out of the domestic sphere, Hammick captures humans and their domiciles with expressive tenderness. "I suppose as a painter I'm interested in the poetic connection with home, and things being terrestrial (versus extraterrestrial)," the artist says. He continues, "You know, I hope [the paintings are] about what it's like to be human… Whether it's a woman going out to her garden, or two women trying to build shelter, or a man, I suppose me, outside sort of a metaphor of my house or flat or studio, and the color of the night. All these figures kind of going around their daily life, nightly life, almost unaware of, or definitely unaware of, us watching them."

Submitted by Janet Rady Fine Art