Tom Foty

A visitor to Wilcock Gallery who had gone to high school with Tom Foty, reported that Tom would paint little landscapes on flat rocks, the kind you skip on a lake, and gave them to pretty girls. If it’s true that “the more you paint the better you get,” it is no wonder that Tom Foty is such a superb painter. Tom cranked out this figure study in about 20 minutes. I watched him and marveled. Pastel on warm colored paper. The drawing, its simplicity of skin tones, the shadows all announce his artistic wizardry.