Exhibition featuring figurative surrealism artists Tom Besson and Travis Cook. Two artists find a commonality in figurative styles while maintaining their own preferred medium (acrylic, oil.) Besson and Cook both touch on topics such as politics, nature, and spirituality within their work which is rich in color and thought provoking stimuli.

FREE admission, refreshments provided.

Tom Besson Artist Statement :

My work is born of some strange marriage of Paganism and Roman Catholicism, substituting the juxtaposition of evil and good with the mundane and the inspirational.

Born into the faith, I was trained to experience and believe in the unseen. I have ever after attempted to paint that hidden world seeking to shuck the mundane in preference to the inspirational.

My work is figurative while widely skirting realism. Reality comes with such limitations. Limited in its three dimensional definition, as I am limited in my patience to render it. Our common…