Thomas Cameron

Cameron’s contemplative oil paintings depict everyday scenes of people in the city to highlight the overlooked, understated, and fleeting mo- ments in life. Through his work, he seeks to imbue the everyday with a sense of beauty and grandeur. Cameron’s paintings combine the tactili- ty of oil paint, with the unintended beauty of vernacular photography to create compositions with a sense of ambiguity and open narrative, inviting the viewer to question what they see. Focusing on city life, his paintings convey the innate tension between togetherness and isolation in urban environments. Motifs and subjects such as shop windows, urban architecture and pedestrians appear as signifiers for the nature of contemporary life. His work is held in the collections of The Government Art Collection, UK; The X Museum, Beijing, China; The University of Dundee, UK; The Tayside Medical History Museum Art Collection, UK as well as private collections in the UK, USA, China, France and Germany.

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