Tom Palin

Tom Palin (born in 1974) is an award winning painter and educator based in the North West of England. He graduated from Liverpool John Moores University with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 1996, and from the University of Manchester with an MA in Art History in 2006. He has exhibited his work in a number of solo and collaborative exhibitions including solo shows at Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax in 2005 and at The Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport in 2004.

Paintings

[http://www.tompalin.co.uk] Tom Palin's website.

Tom Palin's work consists almost entirely of small scale oil paintings. These explore the boundaries between abstraction and figuration and combine an interest in the iconography of the everyday and of the romantic with a concern for the materiality of painting and the passing of time. His work appears, often, as pared-down, muted, multi-layered and, in narrative terms, ambiguous. He cites Maurice Utrillo as a major influence. His oil paintings can be found in The University of Liverpool's Art Collection. Tom Palin is included in The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945 (David Buckman, 2006) [http://www.artdictionaries.com] .

Awards

Tom Palin has won the following awards:
*Hunting Arts Prizes Young Artist of the Year Award (Royal College of Art, 2000).
*Emerson Group Award (Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, 2002).
*Gilchrist-Fisher Memorial Award for Landscape Painters (Rebecca Hossack Gallery, 2003).
*The Alumni Award (Liverpool JMU and LIverpool University, 2005).

Residencies

He held The Feiweles Trust Bursary Award in 2002 which saw the completion of nearly 100 arts-education based workshops in the Yorkshire region and culminated in the exhibition Pride of Place: A Painter's Perspective housed at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

External links

* [http://www.tompalin.co.uk Tom Palin's web page]
* [http://www.hydra-arts.com Workshops]
* [http://www.aligraney.co.uk Collaborations]
* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1871480426 Publications]