Tom Glover
Two ideas were tossing around in my head as I contemplated how to approach this project. One idea was to try and weave my love of Cathedrals and my love of scientific exploration together in a series of paintings which investigate the similarities and differences between the structures of cathedrals and telescopes, radioscopes, colliders, etc.. It would be a comparison of physical structures while bearing in mind the psychological and spiritual components that the buildings represent. I quickly realized that was a complicated undertaking that I really needed to explore in considerable depth, so since I had just been to the Amalfi Coast and the images were still fresh in my mind, I decided that would be what I would focus on. The craggy beauty of cliffs rising and soaring above the sea; the storms that were building dark and ominous above the mountains, and the picturesque towns built into the sides of the cliffs were my focal points, wherein I tried to capture the intense colors and the surrounding drama.
Tom Glover was born in Keene, NH. He graduated with a B.F.A. degree in painting at the University of NH, Durham and worked closely with the Maine painter John Laurent up until Laurent's death in 2005. He studied painting restoration with the conservator Anthony Moore in York, Maine. For several years lectured at the University of Connecticut to science education graduate students on, "The Landscape, Mythology and the Artist". He has also taught painting at the University of New Hampshire, D.C.E., and workshops on the Isles of Shoals, NH/ME. Presently he teaches painting at Sanctuary Arts in Eliot, Maine.
In 1996 he was artist in residence on White Island, Isles of Shoals. In 2000 he was awarded a fellowship to work on Great Spruce Head Island where he used Fairfield Porter's easel and on a second stay used Eliot Porter's old darkroom as living and painting quarters.
He began seeking out the masters during several trips over the past two decades to Italy, England, Ireland, France, Spain and Denmark. He was artist in residence at Rancho Romero, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, and a visiting artist at Monticello, New Mexico exploring canyons, Apache Forts and possible Anasazi ruins. In 2016 he was artist in residence at the Shoals Marine Lab on Appledore Island, Isle of Shoals. In 2023 he joined Shoals Resident Artist alumni for a three day painting stay on Appledore to create work to benefit the Shoals Marine Lab.
