Tom french's Blog

Works in Progress…

tom french — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:15:02 +0000

Hello Lowdown Magazine!

tom french — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:31:23 +0000

I’m very happy to see some of my work featured in issue 79 of Lodown Magazine – www.lodownmagazine.com

Painting Progress

tom french — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:01:29 +0000

The first of a new series of skull scenes, more to come soon….

and one of the character studies…

A Curious Skull – Linoleum block prints

tom french — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:52:10 +0000

The last couple of weeks have been spent carving, printing and hand finishing this latest print edition. The image comes in 3 colourways and is available here. All are hand printed and finished on Somerset White Velvet paper, measuring 28 x 30 cm.

A Curious Skull (Black)

Edition of 30

A Curious Skull (Black) – detail

A Curious Skull (Green)

Edition of 10

A Curious Skull (Green) – detail

A Curious Skull (Orange)

Edition of 10

A Curious Skull (Orange) – detail

Due to the Linoleum printing process each print will vary making them all slightly different.

I will be giving away the working sketch used to create these prints, so click the image below for details.

Linoleum Block Prints – Process

tom french — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:31:09 +0000

Hello Bl!sss Mag!

tom french — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:08:30 +0000

Octobers Bl!ssmag featuring the newest ‘Cowboy Balance’ image, see the full article here – http://blisssmag.com/oct11.html

Cowboy Balance Prints

tom french — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:30:37 +0000

This week I’ve been working with the screen printers to produce prints of each of the 2 new Cowboy Balance images. They have done a great job on these, so here’s the details -

Limited Edition of 25 per image
Single colour screen print on Somerset White Velvet paper with 4 deckle edges
size 56 x76 cm

They can be found at Zero Cool Gallery , Art Republic and Epoch Art Gallery

Here’s how they are looking with some detail shots too…

Skull Sketch

tom french — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:01:00 +0000

A little exploration into progression of the skull series…

Cowboy Balance

tom french — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:31:12 +0000

I’ve recently finished off 2 new additions to the Cowboy Balance series…These are charcoal, acrylic and ink on paper measuring 110 x 100 cm. There will be some prints of these coming very soon so get subscribed for updates!

Shrouded Perceptions – New Print

tom french — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:24:50 +0000

This is the first print taken from a new series of oil paintings I’m currently working on. Its screenprinted onto Somerset 300gsm White Satin (100% cotton rag, acid free with four deckle edges), measuring 29cm x 41cm, and can be found at Zero Cool Gallery.