Hello from Georgia
 

Hey everybody,
This is Tom. I sign my paintings Thomas Nash (sometimes Thomas V. Nash) but friends call me Tom. I technically have been a member a long time but have not been on the site so it's like I'm new here.

I've been a professional portrait painter for almost thirty five years now.

I will come back and add more bio stuff later. First I am going to post a link about an article on portraiture from the May 29th Washington Post art critic Blake Gopnik. I'm going to the Cafe Guerbois and do that now.

Gopnik, the author is one of these elitists with a very narrow view of what can be called "art". Since he believes that painting as an art form is "dead" and that no "important" artist would bother with it, we kinda know that we aren't going to be reading something objective or informative about traditional painting.

I will eventually post some photos of the only official portrait I have in the Capitol along with a series of photos showing how I did it. I'll do that here and on my own site when I have time.

Very warm greetings to you, Tom! We will look forward to reading your masterful viewpoints on painting as well as other informative gems in future posts.

Warm regards,

Edgar

Tom, Welcome to this Forum! I've admired your incredible work for a long time and I'm delighted to see your post here. I really regret not talking to you more at he PSA conference but you were always surrounded by too many fans. ;)

A warm welcome Mr. Nash.
I admire your work very much and I'm happy to know that you're here. I'm also anxious to see your future website finished.

Hi Tom, add me to the long time fan list! Welcome!

Welcome to the forum Tom,
Looking forward to seeing your art and learn from your long time experience.

Allan

Welcome back Tom. Always great to have another consummate professional helping us out.

Tom

I, too, am an admirer of your work and I look forward to hearing more about how you craft a painting.

Robert

Welcome Tom,
I also look forward to your input on the forum.
Love your songs too! Wish there was a way that audio could be posted so that everyone could hear the songs that you treated us with at the conference!
Mary

Tom,

You could certainly post the lyrics to that one song - was it Portrit Artist Blues? (misspelling of "portrit" is intentional)