Tom Campbell, New Works

Tom Campbell was born in London, England in 1951, but from the age of two spent his childhood years in Canada and his high school years in Minnesota, USA. At seventeen he traveled to England to study art, first at the Camden Art Centre (1969-70) before completing a BA in Fine Arts in Painting and Sculpture at the Camberwell School of Art and Design, London (1970-74). After art school  his work was selected for a number of exhibitions including the “Spirit of London” at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.  He also painted sets and props for theatre and television. In 1982 he returned to Canada and began painting full time. In 1985 he had his first major solo exhibition at Gallery Stratford, won the Kitchener Waterloo Art prize, and joined the Bau Xi Gallery exhibiting regularly for over twenty five years in Toronto and Vancouver.

In 1989 he began teaching at the Toronto School of Art two days a week until retiring in 2025 and remains on the school’s Board of Governors. From the early 2000s he also taught painting workshops on a bi-annual basis at the Ikarian Cultural Centre, Ikaria, Greece.

He has been exhibited in a number of public galleries and also  the offices of the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. On television Campbell has been featured in ‘Artist in the Urban  Environment’ and “Star Portraits”. His first exhibition with Galerie St Laurent + Hill was in 2012.

His work can be found in Corporate and Private collections in Europe, the Middle East, USA and Canada.
Tom Campbell – Artist Statement

By sculpting and painting the human figure my intent is to honour  the individual person caught  in their  surroundings of the crowded city  or in solitude with the elements of nature, Earth, Air, Water and Fire.
With the tone of the colours and the stillness of forms I wish to  evoke some sense of  age that may connect the contemporary moments depicted with that of human activity throughout time.