Atlanta
Thomas Swanston celebrates the splendor of nature by mixing organic imagery with opulent color. Swanston’s latest series references landscape traditions using silver, gold, and copper leaf to form the contour of birds and vegetation placed upon a hazy, soft pastel background. The subject matter of his paintings is energetic and decisive in one sense, yet yielding in another. Swanston’s work is the end result of an omnivorous search for meaning, and emerges from a love of many seemingly disparate elements. Swanston harnesses the spirituality of the natural world through close observation of the timeless rhythms that inform it.