Tom Vieth

Harbor Porch

oil/canvas 25” x 31”

Autumn River and Three Trout

31” x 39"

Sailboat Flags

23 1/2” x 40 1/2"

Bird Vase with Irises and Peonies

20” x 27" SOLD

Flower Festival at Neuvic

20” x 26”

Early Start I

oil/canvas 27” x 33"

Windy Moorings

oil/canvas 29” x 32"

Three Terns

oil/canvas 191/4” x 23 ½”

Moorings at Dawn

oil on canvas 37.5” x 30” SOLD

Harbor Porch

oil on canvas 33” x 27” SOLD

Tern at Sunset

Oil on 23k gold 18 x 22"

Harbor Morning II

Oil on 20k gold 30 x 38"

Birds and Spring Flowers

Oil on white gold 30 x 37"

Birds and Flowers Design II

Oil on white gold 34 x 34" SOLD

4th of July Morning

Oil on 20k gold ("Lemon gold") 30 x 37" SOLD

Untitled

33”x 33” oil/white gold SOLD

Aspen Two Doves River

oil on gilded paper (white gold) 23” x 45”

Brantome Market

oil/canvas 26 ½” x 33” SOLD

Patio Bouquet

oil/canvas 27" x 34" SOLD

Patio Setting

oil/gilded paper 30" x 34"

Market Day, Brantome

oil/canvas 17" x 25"

Sailboats and Two Terns

oil/canvas 20" x 24" SOLD

Small Terns II

oil/canvas 13" x 17"

Small Tern I

13” x 17”oil/canvas SOLD

Small Tern II

13” x 17” oil/canvas

4th of July

28” x 36” (with frame 31” x 39”) oil/white gold on panel SOLD

Summer Harbor

28” x 36” (with frame 31” x 39”) oil/white gold on panel SOLD

Spring Birds

33 ½” x 16 ½ (with frame 37” x 20”) oil/white gold on panel SOLD

Spring Birds

33 ½” x 16 ½ (with frame 37” x 20”) oil/white gold on panel SOLD

Morning Sail

oil on yellow gold gilded paper 32” x 40" SOLD

The Finish Line

oil on Canvas 33” x 39” SOLD

Moored Sailboats

oil on canvas 31” x 38 1/2 SOLD

Warren’s Point

oil on canvas 28” x 45” SOLD

Summer Harbor

oil on canvas 33” x 36” SOLD

Hazy Day

oil on white gold gilded paper 32” x 40" SOLD

Tom’s paintings are in collections throughout the US, in France and in England. Over a professional career that spans three decades, Tom’s art has been represented by many galleries and agents across the US. For the past twenty years, his primary means of exhibiting and selling his work has been through private shows.

Tom’s vision in painting is to connect with people through shared experiences. The way he uses light and color evokes the emotional core of the places and things he paints. This allows the viewer to be reminded of a similar place he or she has seen or experienced. The details of the places Tom paints are left out so that the place, or objects, or time of day can become more universal. This is the key to making connections through shared experiences.

Tom describes the differences between working in watercolor and oil paints:

“All of my watercolors are done on location—right in the middle of the village or market, out in a field, or looking at a vase of flowers. Making watercolors is like playing a very challenging tennis match. I am ready for the challenge because of all the work accomplished through hundreds of previous watercolors. A tennis player responds more than thinks in the heat of the match. Likewise, when I am making the watercolor, thinking gets in the way of the constant challenge involved in responding to what is in front of me and with the changes each brush stroke makes in the watercolor.

Oil painting is like a very long chess game. I work on the painting until I am stuck. Then I set it aside, think about it, work on other paintings, and think about it some more. When I return to the first painting, I can always discover what I should do next. I have to follow where the painting leads me. I don’t feel like I make oil paintings so much as I find them.”

There are many influences of other artists in Tom’s work. The most obvious influences are the French painters Cezanne, Matisse, and Dufy. Not so obvious are the subtle influences of the American painters Milton Avery, Marsden Hartley and Maurice Prendergast. All of these painters are colorists and present images that transcend the time and place of the scenes they depict.

Tom’s largest corporate project involved creating forty watercolors and seventeen oil paintings for the lobby spaces in the prestigious Ballantyne Resort Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Tom’s wife, Susan, manages his business affairs, makes and gilds the picture frames, manages his web site, and supports his work in a thousand other ways when she isn’t skipping out to the garden or hiking the hidden pathways of the Dordogne Region of France.