conjuring landscape

Thomas Minto Milsom began painting in 2016, processing an overload of landscape imagery taken in visually during work on film ranches. Although he does not paint on location, the artist often things of this body of work as delayed plein-air. He generally allows a scene to "come forth as it will," and although a palette is prepared for a vista envisaged at the outset of painting, the scenes materialize with an element of surprise. "Mood Painting" is a fair categorization of the work. Many of the paintings represent a continuing meditation upon lonesomeness, and upon the making of the individual in isolation.

Oil painting, as the artist understands it, is a matter of "establishing a balance of control and abandon." Continually fascinated by microcosms, and by the moments in which randomness breaths life into them, Milsom's wish is to transport--and to return the viewer home--in the same moment.

Thomas Minto Milsom lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the proud father to a daughter, Ingrid Minto Milsom.