Tom Fort's award winning paintings have been displayed in galleries along with the most recognizable artists in the country. Galleries in Dallas, Washington DC, Naples, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Monterey, Hot Springs and several on-line galleries represent Tom Fort. His clients include professional athletes such Hall of Fame Dallas Cowboy Randy White and Dan Marino, Professional golfers such as Raymond Floyd Jr., Corporations such as Youtube.com and Private and Public golf courses as well as an extensive list of private collectors own his work.
Tom received his formal art training at The University of North Texas. He has his home and studio in McKinney, Texas (a suburb of Dallas) where he lives with his wife of 25 years and his two sons. In addition to painting and family life, Tom enjoys playing the guitar, coaching his son's baseball teams and carries a single digit handicap on the golf course. Tom has been a full time artist for 15 plus years.
Over the years, Tom has become a master of the acrylic medium and has developed his own technique to give his paintings tremendous depth and luminocity not normally found in acrylic painters. Tom incorporates a series of glazes, scrumbles, dry brush and other methods into every painting to achieve his unique look. In fact, many gallery owners have listed Tom's work as "oil on canvas" only to be surprised that the paintings are acrylic.
Tom's charcoal portraits are equally surprising to his clients. Tom loves the challenge of taking one single medium (a stick of charcoal wood) and finding ways to make it look like skin, hair, cloth, clouds, bark, etc., when applied to paper. While traveling in London, Tom learned a few charcoal techniques by watching the street artists. He took these methods back home and mastered them, developed additional techniques of his own and his work blossomed. His charcoal portraits are some of his best selling pieces and also the most economically priced.
