"The work on these pages is painted solely from life, from live sittings with real people or out in the open-air landscape. For better or worse, this is the way it pleases me to work. While the main purpose of this site is to show my wares as a portraitist, I wish to point out that I paint portraits because I love to, and that I require a considerable degree of freedom in executing commissions in order to stay interested. That said, I have found my adventures in commissioned portraiture over the years to have been happy experiences for all concerned." http://www.tomrootartist.com/home.html Tom Root was born in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1958. He studied drawing and painting at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, Connecticut, under Aaron Shikler N.A. and Deane G. Keller, and at Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. Early on, Tom was interested in being a part of a contemporary figurative revival. He loved historic portraiture but intensely disliked modern formula-based commercial portraiture and desired to see contemporary portraiture reconnected with fine art. This has been the goal of much of his work. A professional figure and portrait painter for over 35 years, Tom has work in private and public collections across the country. Tom is a popular teacher and workshop leader. He and his wife, artist Peggy Root, founded a small community art school in 2011, Root Studio School, near their home in Jonesborough, Tennessee, where they teach art fundamentals to all ages and levels. In addition to being a painter, Tom is also a songwriter, musician, and a writer of children’s stories.(http://www.lymeacademy.edu/index.php/community-engagement/summer-residencies-summer-2016/Tom-Root/) undefined

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