Tom Henderson Smith

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Biography

An adopted Cornishman, Tom Henderson Smith grew up mostly in Yorkshire and was educated there and at Newcastle-upon-Tyne University (BA Hons. Fine Art 1971). Two years in Italy, initially on a Bunzl Scholarship were followed by seven living in Bath, training as a teacher in Bristol and starting out teaching art in London.
Moving to Cornwall in 1980 he worked as head of art at Mounts Bay School until the opportunity to leave teaching and relaunch his painting career came in 1999.

 

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions include:
Morvah Gallery, Penzance, April 2012 - The Turning Year
The Gallery at Trereife, Penzance, June 2010 - Lived-in Landscapes
Chapel Row Gallery, Bath, April 2010 - Lived-in Landscapes
Spring and Steele Galleries, Falmouth Arts Centre, October 2008 - In the Ocean Light
Bodmin Shire Hall - May 2006 - Shaping a Vision of Cornwall part 2
Mariner's Gallery St Ives - April 2006 - Shaping a Vision of Cornwall part 1
Mariner's Gallery St Ives - October 2003 - Valleys and Horizons
Mariner's Gallery St Ives - July 2001 - A Peninsula Suite
He held exhibiitions in Florence, Newcastle, Bath, Bristol, Plymouth and Penzance from 1972 to 1984

Group Exhibitions:
Castle Heritage Centre and Art Gallery, Bude - "An Eye for Cornwall" (June/July 2011)
Broadway Gallery, New York - Artists at Home and Abroad Series (May 2011)
Durham University Ustinov Intercultural Forum - Voices of the World exhibition (May 2011)
Camden Art Gallery, London - Collective Exhibition (Jan 2010)
Represented by Galeria Gaudi of Madrid at Kunstart Art Fair, Bolzano , Italy (May 2007)
Botallack Counthouse, Botallack, Cornwall "Crowns and Chasms" (July 2002)
Truro Museum, Cornwall (April 2002)
The Camelford Gallery, Cornwall (October 2001)
Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery, Cornwall (September 1999)
Great Atlantic Mapworks Gallery, St. Just, Cornwall (1998)
Visions and Journey's Gallery, St. Just, Cornwall (from 1986 to 1993)
Newlyn Orion Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall (1981)
Federation of British Artists (1978)
Royal Academy (1977)Solo exhibitions include:

 

Media

Acrylics, Canvas, Drawing