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Thomas Adkins is a Southbury, Connecticut and Maine resident and a graduate of Paier College of Art of New Haven. He has worked as art director and creative director for some of Connecticut’s and New York’s most prestigious advertising agencies.


His work has been exhibited throughout the US and is a member of many prestigious artist organizations such as Salmagundi Art Club in New York, Oil Painters of America, and Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society among others.

Thomas Adkins is a seasoned veteran of plein air painting. Most works begin with on location studies 16 x 20 or smaller. Adkins then composes larger works in his studio compiling sketches, additional studies and from memory. His most recent works have been in Northwestern Connecticut area along with views of the Mid Coast of Maine.

As a contemporary painter of the New England landscape. His style and technique has developed from early influences by impressionistic painters of light on nature, such as Monet, Pissaro, Willard Metcalf, and most recently Peter Poskas, and Clyde Aspevig. Adkins has the rare ability to capture the subtle nuances that make up the ever changing beauty of light on the New England landscape in a realistic contemporary way.