Born in Totnes and Devon, Tom studied at Brighton Polytechnic and Norwich School of Art. After graduation he returned to East Sussex and has spent much of his working life in Lewes. A plein air painter, he paints the Pembrokeshire coast, Dorset’s Jurassic Coast and the Gower Penin sula as well as his local Sussex coast line. He has exhibited regularly around Britain and teaches his craft at Paddock Art Studios in Lewes and at West Dean College in West Sussex.