Tom Henderson

Club of Squares (Abstract painting)

2017

Other Worlds 2 (Abstract painting) Oil Paint on Glass Mirror - Unframed. Light, movement and colour are central to Henderson’s wall mounted pieces which ...

Other Worlds 2 (Abstract painting) Oil Paint on Glass Mirror - Unframed. Light, movement and colour are central to Henderson’s wall mounted pieces which ...

Oil Paint on Glass Mirror - Unframed. Light, movement and colour are central to Henderson’s wall mounted pieces which he prefers to think of as sculptural paintings. Mirrors, plywoo...

Other Worlds 1 (Abstract painting) Oil Paint on Glass Mirror - Unframed. Light, movement and colour are central to Henderson’s wall mounted pieces which ...

Gouache and graphite on handmade paper. 14 x 11 inches unframed, 18.25 x 15.25 inches framed. Artist Statement: “As an artist, I find endless possibilities overwhelming and use self-imposed boundaries to focus my work. This often includes some combination of: a literal grid or graphite border, employment of barbecue skewers or wooden chopsticks in lieu of paintbrushes for mark making, use of a monochromatic or limited color palette, and a reliance on shape and pattern to tell a story. Limiting the elements at play adds a measure of gravity to each decision, and every detail about the paper, the viscosity of the paint, micro variations in hues, and even the sharpness of the point on a skewer matters. I’ve found that the more restrictions I put in place when I paint, the freer my work has become, allowing a tension to form between the organic and prescribed. Rather than sketch before starting a new piece, I spend time with the paper and begin to visualize possibilities. From there, I can expand the work incrementally. Whether I’m working in an adapted form of pointillism, playing with opacity and hue, or building patterns through repeating shape, the work evolves in its own time. It is an intentionally open process of discovery that seeks to uncover the greatest potential of the basest elements we have at our disposal”. - Kate Snow

I have worked on a new collection of abstract paintings.This new abstract series is dedicated to a "heart- mind connection". This is the one of them called "Connection". While work...

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A geometric abstract painting features organic squares in multiple bright colors against a dark brown background. Although arranged in a grid pattern, the size ...

“SYNC" is one of the later pieces in the “EQUATIONS” series (2012-15). The elements in the series finds bold, flat colored planes surrounding a large, open square in the ...