Ultimate-Saiyan

With the easter break I've had some time this weekend to redesign my blog so its more user friendly, and fresh - its something which, I've neglected somewhat in previous months, due to a complete lack of time to keep any relevant updates. I plan to change that starting with the most recent posts, and hopefully provide a continuing trend for engaging thoughts regarding my art practice and its influences. The blog itself may be found below - TomRobArt I also plan on submitting images of all my recent paintings to deviantart in the coming weeks, with the degree show fast approaching everything is becoming increasingly hectic, and I've been g

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again.

Anatomy of Identity The main theme in my current body of work revolves around the idea of identity and anonymity with regards to the passage of time and the implications of decay as time itself lapses. Memory is also a continual constant within my practice, and it is my desire to investigate these ideas to produce work which provides ambiguous, indistinct imprints in paint, in order to reflect the knowledge of temporality that we are all forced to face as sentient beings. The figures I paint, which originate from old photographs, present themselves as being almost entirely monochromatic compared to that of the surrounding area. This is to a