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Tom White: “Sculptor of Life” 

 Sculptor Tom White has been quietly at work in his studio in the town of Bethel for the past three years.  The Artisit is, uniquely talented and for the most part unheard of in fine art circles.  Today his work are quickly gaining attention.  Art connoisseur Howard Cooperman of the celebrated Howard Gallery in New Hope, Penn., saw Tom White’s work on the internet and was taken aback by its unique quality.  “I wish I could get more artists to use this much detail. His work is simply beautiful. He has captured the character of his subjects in deep subtle expressions that are moving and revealing.  This is a difficult thing for any artist to accomplish.” 

White is able to capture indefinable things that make a character unique.  In a feature article that appeared  in the Art Issue of Port City Life, writer, Maggie Knowles, upon seeing a life-size bronze of a smiling Jesus noted "Though not a religious person, I feel a calm brush over me as I study the gentle face." 

White sculpts in plastilene clay that is then cast in fine art bronze in limited editions through the age old lost wax process.  He personally oversees the patina of each original bronze.  His sculptures are tapletop, pedestal and life-size.  The life-size bronzes are particularly striking.

 Dr. Frank Johnson, who commissioned White to sculpt a likeness of his father, stated “It is so much like him that I speak to it sometimes.”  Linda King, owner of "Gallery of the Master" in Loveland, Colo. contends that “Tom White is one of the gifted few who not only creates life-like figures with all of the correct proportions, but can also capture and express the life, the heart, and the emotions of the person being sculpted.”

 A native of Midland Texas, White is a self taught artist and craftsman.  He spent most of his life as a carpenter; then in 1991, never having had a lesson; he was suddenly struck with an intense desire to create art.  His talent was immediately recognized and validated by the largest foundry in Texas which cast his first piece.  They were under the assumption that White had been a seasoned sculptor for at least 20 years.  White has continued to grow artistically and most of his work finds its way into the mainstream through commissioned miniature and life-sized religious figures, memorials, portrayals of historical events, and wildlife sculptures among many other subjects. Although he has done little to promote himself, his art has been featured by galleries in Texas, Colorado, and Maine. 

White feels that his painstaking attention to detail gives his work an unmatched quality in expressing the spectrum of human emotions and has earned him the reputation of “the sculptor of life.”  In White’s own words, “I believe that “the face” is the mirror of the human soul and the map to the character of the spirit within.  All of my past works have been geared to capturing that elusive quality that makes us endure, grow, live and love in the faces of the subjects being depicted.  I feel I have a unique expertise for isolating and exposing the character and emotions within that truly sets my work apart.  Striving to bring my subjects “to life” in finished bronze is my main goal as an artist.”

For more information call 207-824-8884, email sculptor@tomwhitestudio.com or visit www.tomwhitestudio.com

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