Tom Marsh RSMA AROI
About Tom
Tom is a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists and an Associate with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters regularly exhibiting at the Mall Galleries in London. Tom is on the judging panel for the annual summer exhibition for The Hampstead Art Society.
Tom spent his childhood growing up in New Zealand and was introduced to oil painting at an early age by his father.
At sixteen, Tom achieved membership to the Society of Architectural Illustrators.
He completed his art training with a degree in Illustration at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
The beautiful sense of light and shadow that was so much part of Tom’s early life in New Zealand has informed his painting subjects ever since. Now living in Battle, Tom uses his keen sense of light to render his
local landscape which includes the countryside, coast, marine subjects and London.
Tom paints with oil in the ‘plein air’ tradition.
Membership
Royal Society of Marine Artists - Full membership 2024
Royal Institute of Oil Painters - Associate membership 2021
Awards
Royal Society of Marine Artists - The Artist Magazine award 2022
Royal Institute of Oil Painters - Small painting award Prize 2021
Royal Society of Marine Artists - RSMA Award for the Best Small Painting Prize 2021
Royal Society of Marine Artists - Winsor & Newton Oil Prize 2019
Exhibitions
En Plein Air, Competition Showcase, Judging Panel
Rye Art Gallery, 24th August – 29th September
En Plein Air, Group Exhibition
Rye Art Gallery - 24th August – 29th September
Coast, Countryside & Town - solo exhibition
The Almonry, Battle - 2nd April - 3rd May 2024
Hampstead Art Society - Judging panel - Exhibition 2024
8 Duke Street, St. James’s July 7th to July 13th
Hampstead Art Society - Judging panel - Exhibition 2023, 2022, 2021
D Contemporary, 23 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London
British Plein Air Group - Exhibition 2023
Royal Watercolour Society Gallery, London
The Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition,The Mall Galleries, St. James's, London SW1, The Mall, London, W1 (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017)
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition,The Mall Galleries, St. James's, London SW1 (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017)
Rye Art Gallery - Solo Exhibition 'Places' 2020/21
The Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition,The Mall Galleries, St. James's, London SW1 (2019)
The New English Art Club Annual Exhibition,The Mall Galleries, St. James's, London SW1 (2022, 2019)
Kent Painters Group Exhibition 2018/2019
Pilgrims Artist Exhibition 2018
The Portico Gallery, Riverhead, Sevenoaks
The Wing Gallery, Wadhurst, East Sussex
The Harbour Gallery, Portscatho, Cornwall
Signet Contemporary Art, Kings Road, Chelsea, London.
The Tonic Gallery, Salcombe, Devon
Bistro @ the Station, Etchingham, East Sussex.
Painting outside - My kit and materials.
For plein air painting I use a pochade box mounted onto a standard camera tripod easel.
I was lucky enough to meet and paint with Karl Terry - a wonderful artist and now great friend http://www.karlterry.co.uk/
He really helped me understand painting outdoors and the best places to eat and warm up!
I paint on gesso primed boards with Michael Harding Oil paints.
http://www.michaelharding.co.uk/
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