A Minneapolis native, Thomas Paquette received a BFA in Painting from Bemidji State University, and an MFA in Painting from Southern Illinois University on a Graduate Fellowship. His work has exhibited across the country in more that forty-five solo shows and has hung in fourteen US embassies on five continents. He received grants and awards including a Blue Mountain Center residency in the Adirondacks last fall, a three-year fellowship/residency in Miami from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, an artist residency from the Aegean Arts and Cultural Exchange, and an artist residency at the American Academy in Rome. He and his wife currently live on a hill overlooking the forests of the Allegheny Mountains in northwestern Pennsylvania.
"I sometimes travel long distances as an inquiring appreciator of nature. My paintings reflect that. Many of them are from wilds or farmlands that are locally familiar, while others may hail from places like Greece and France. A landscape painting is not simply a reverie and reflection on a special place or moment. It is an unfolding, visual contemplation that touches on the nature of sight and the texture of life, the most important functions of any successful painting." |
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