Tom Coates Hon PS PPNEAC PPRBA RP

Tom uses all materials and work instinctively with whatever he feels will produce the best results for the image that he is working on. He uses all kinds of brushes and tools, and sometimes work with my fingers to literally ‘draw with paint’. Tom's library of old sketchbooks acts as a constant point of reference and he always draws from life. Using these quick, loose images he begins marking out a larger image once in the studio. He doesn't believe that photographs capture a real moment and as a result he does not use them to remind me of a subject. All his preliminary sketches and memories are real enough and they represent him as the artist, capturing the moment.