About the Artist Dean Thomas

                                                                     Click Here to View More of Dean's Work

Biography           Bucks County landscape artist Dean Thomas is known for his traditional representational paintings of the Delaware River between Upper Black Eddy and New Hope.  His love for nature and the peace that it brings him is beautifully captured in his paintings. Thomas states that “the large part of being a landscape painter is the journey, the adventure of finding places that few others have found.  To locate such places, Thomas hikes where most people tend not to venture - traveling the two or three miles downstream to find his subject matter. Thomas received the Parthenia J. Vandermark Award for Excellence in Fine Arts, Glassboro State College and the First place for Regional Art Competition of College Unions.  While at Glassboro, Thomas learned the traditional approach to drawing and painting from three gifted professors and artists. “Daniel Chard taught me how to see things as they really are and how to be precise.”  “Gerry Monroe taught me how to be a fearless painter and how attack the canvas.”  “Herbert Appleson stressed drawing skill above all else, one must have a strong foundation from which to build upon.” “All three professors left upon me a lasting impression from which I continue to draw from to this day.”   Accomplishments Second place Tinicum Arts Festival 2006 Honorable Mention Tinicum Arts Festival 2005 Philadelphia Watercolor Club 75th Annual Juried Show- Noyes Museum-Absecon (NJ)- purchase award 1992 Haddon Fortnightly Juried Exhibition-Haddonfield (NJ)- purchase award 1992 Camden County (NJ) Cultural and Heritage Commission Juried Show at The Hopkins House-purchase award 1990 Burlington County (NJ) Cultural and Heritage Commission-purchase award 1989 Atlantic City Art Center, Atlantic County (NJ) Juried Show- purchase award 1989 Gloucester County (NJ) Cultural and Heritage Commission- 2 time purchase award winner 1987-1988 Private Collections                            Salem County (NJ) College Rowan University Wheaton Village, Millville, NJ Public Collections NJ Department of Environmental Protection Corporate Collections Cigna Corporation Weyerhauser Corporation Selected Exhibitions Salmagundi Club, New York, New York The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, New Jersey Mercer Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania Philadelphia Watercolor Club, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Bianco Gallery, Buckingham, Pennsylvaina Travis Gallery, Lahaska, Pennsylvania