Tom Wood
After Campin 28,
1999,
23 x 15.5 cm,
Oil and wax on panel
Tom Wood
Tom Wood was born in Dar Es Salaam, East Africa in 1955. In 1958 his father died and his mother moved her family to West Yorkshire.
Tom Wood attended Sheffield School of Art, and immediately after graduating began to have highly successful exhibitions.
In 1989, a portrait of HRH Prince of Wales and a commission for London Underground (a painting for a poster to advertise the Museum of Mankind) brought him to the attention of a broader public.
Other portrait commissions include: Professor Peter Brooks, Yale University; Sir Colin Dollery, the Royal Hammersmith Hospital; Alan Bennet for the National Portrait gallery; and Professor Lord Winston, also for the NPG.
Most recent solo exhibitions by Tom Wood include: Leeds City Art Gallery; Huddersfield Art Gallery; Schloss Cappenberg, Kreiss Unna, Germany; Millfields Gallery, Somerset; and Hart Gallery, London.
There is an extensive range of critical commentary covering his career, and in1995 the monograph ‘Man and Measure -The Paintings of Tom Wood’ by Duncan Robinson was published.
Tom Wood continues to live and work in Halifax, West Yorkshire.