Thomas J. Curry, a passionate artist and Maine resident, struggled over many years to find his own pathway.  After a year of studying traditionally at college preparatory schools, Curry began his formal commitment to art when he was accepted to Rhode Island School of Design.  He talks about flourishing in that environment, first majoring in sculpture and then switching to painting in his sophomore year and graduating in 1981.

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Thomas J. Curry, a passionate artist and Maine resident, struggled over many years to find his own pathway.  After a year of studying traditionally at college preparatory schools, Curry began his formal commitment to art when he was accepted to Rhode Island School of Design.  He talks about flourishing in that environment, first majoring in sculpture and then switching to painting in his sophomore year and graduating in 1981. 

Curry spent a year at Yale School of Fine Art, but decided thatHawaiiwas more of a lure where the landscape and sky and painting from nature captured his artistic vision.  It was inHawaiithat he developed his well-known style using hand-crafted pastel oil sticks.  In 1987, Curry’s next challenge was inBoston, where he attended theUniversityofMassachusettsand completed his masters in fine art. 

Curry’s path then took him to Maine, where he says about his life, “I still can’t believe how gorgeous it is; it’s serene but disheveled; it’s raw and not overly organized.”  To those of us who are passionate about Tom Curry’s work, we cannot help but notice his accomplished technique, his ease in presenting his vision, and how he supercharges the brightness that makes one sense the “wildness and joy” inherent in living in Maine. Curry is at heart a plein air pastel artist and an accomplished oil painter. He is most at home on a hillside, perched over aMaine harbor, often sitting on a fieldstone wall, totally focused, totally absorbed, totally engrossed in creating.

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