![]() ![]() “I’m there watching the painting, adding and subtracting things as it grows and evolves,” he says. But, in actuality, it typifies both the inherently modest manner of the Midwest-born artist and the great sense of wonder he still feels as his lifelong instinctive approach to painting continues to lead him to fresh discoveries. That statement may at first seem disarmingly cavalier. ![]() “I just make them up as I paint them,” he says. “None of these places really exist,” he says of works that have found homes with a multitude of serious collectors and in such prestigious institutions as the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe and the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. As fully present as his FULL MOON, SUMMER may seem, the landscape it portrays is a work of his imagination, inspired by the Southwest surroundings where he has made his home for almost five decades. Yet, reality is a fluid concept in Perkinson’s world. Tom Perkinson, December Moon, New Mexico, watercolor/mixed media, 10 x 10.
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