Artist Spotlight - Thomas Sgouros

Thomas Sgouros: Remembered Landscapes 1992-2012

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Thomas Sgouros’ paintings in the Remembered Landscapes series began in the early 1990s out of a deep dedication to painting and a willingness to change in the midst of an illustrious career established in realism. With the swift onset of macular degeneration, Sgouros was no longer able to render scenes from life so he used what he remembered to portray emotional landscapes. Using oil on linen, watercolor and pastel on paper, the ideas in the work began to shift from the earlier depiction of the possible landscape to the fantastic combinations of land and sky. Elements that celebrate the modern (source)