John Toomey

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    2000-2012

    Cloud Recordiings
    Cloud Recordings,Resoundings
    Cloud Recordings,Resoundings
    mixed media on paper
    18"x 18"
    Cloud Recordings,Flushlings
    Cloud Recordings,Flushlings
    mixed media on paper
    18"x 18"
    Cloud Recordings, Flushling
    Cloud Recordings, Flushling
    mixed media on paper
    18"x 18"
    Cloud Recordings,Unearthing
    Cloud Recordings,Unearthing
    mixed media on paper
    18"x 18"
    Cloud Recordings,Lift Study
    Cloud Recordings,Lift Study
    mixed media on paper
    18"x 18"
    Cloud Recordings,Lift Study lI
    Cloud Recordings,Lift Study lI
    mixed media on paper
    18"x 18"
    Cloud Recordings,Lift Study lII
    Cloud Recordings,Lift Study lII
    mixed media on paper
    18"x 18"
    Cloud Recordings,Lift Study IV
    Cloud Recordings,Lift Study IV
    mixed media on paper
    18"x 18"
    Flight of the Flushlings and Blow
    Of Soil and Sky
    Of Soil and Sky,Mediations
    Of Soil and Sky,Mediations
    mixed media on paper
    26"x 24"
    Of Soil and Sky,Communions
    Of Soil and Sky,Communions
    mixed media on paper
    26"x 24"
    Of Soil and Sky,Gestations
    Of Soil and Sky,Gestations
    mixed media on paper
    26"x 24"
    Of Soil and Sky,Vegetations
    Of Soil and Sky,Vegetations
    mixed media on paper
    26"x 24"
    Of Soil and Sky,Projections
    Of Soil and Sky,Projections
    mixed media on paper
    30"x 24"
    Of Soil and Sky,Projections II
    Of Soil and Sky,Projections II
    mixed media on paper
    30"x 24"
    Little Wing
    Little Wing
    mixed media on paper
    12"x 12"
    Resoundings,Flight of the Flushlings
    Resoundings,Flight of the Flushlings
    mixed media on paper and wood panel - 36"x 58"
    Lift
    Lift
    mixed media on paper and wood panel - 5'x 9'
    Lift.detail.3
    Lift.detail.3
    Lift- detail
    Lift- detail
    Lift-detail
    Lift-detail

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    I am a Nashville artist and arts educator with roots in Tennessee, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Kentucky. I make landscape inspired mixed-media paintings on paper, canvas, and wood. My work is a combination of acrylic, pastel, graphite, watercolor, and collage. At times I also take delight in applying bits of organic material onto the paintings, such as pressed flowers, leaves, and soil. I think of each painting as a garden, or an area of sky, filled with fragments of clouds and flowers, grasses and wood.

     

    My art is communion with landscape. My imagery, which stems from observation and improvisation, is born from dreaming upon the horizon, drifting towards sky and descending into soil. It is a dialogue between abstraction and representation, cause and effect, growth and decay. More invocation than description my work is a contemplation of forces which shape, veil, reveal, and record natural form.

     

    For greater insight into my work please take a moment to read this lovely article by Jane R. Snyder in the December 2015 issue of the Nashville Arts Magazine. 

    http://nashvillearts.com/2015/12/03/john-toomey-lost-found-memories-mother/

     

    My work is represented by the beautiful Ruth Baggett Gallery in Paducah Kentucky.