Robert Brownlee-Tomasso

By April 24, 2016 September 14th, 2017 Foundry Artists

I’ve been an artist since childhood, and my main medium is acrylic and earth on canvas. I’ve
recently been incorporating tree branches in the canvas construction.

My family and teachers in grade school through high school encouraged me to pursue art. I went to a summer art camp at around the age of ten, and I was fortunate to be able to major in art in high school. Having learned basic techniques, I used college to learn a career in Graphic Design and continued fine art on my own, trying to keep it pure.

I’m self-employed, so I work on art whenever I’m inspired. I enjoy getting inspiration from the places I go and things I experience, collecting earth that I use to create texture on my canvases. My subject matter is usually inspired by those travels, and lately I’ve done images of birds and the woods.

I’ve shown all over Delmarva, as well as Annapolis and Baltimore. I always have a piece in The Foundry in Denton, and I’m currently exhibiting at Ouvert in St. Michaels, and show work routinely at Annmarie Garden in Solomons, Maryland. I’d like to see my work get in as many galleries as possible.

When not working on artwork I bicycle, play with sports cars and enjoy the outdoors.

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  • […] Rob Brownlee-Tomasso- Denton, MD Taking inspiration from architecture, history, and nature, as well as depicting highly stylized conceptual characters, Rob Brownlee-Tomasso creates texture studies done in mixed media. Often on irregularly shaped canvases and sometimes as multiple canvas installations, the acrylic medium or gesso is applied with a mixture of sand, earth, or other materials to achieve a coarse surface. It is common for earth to be taken from a specific location that is the subject matter of that particular work. Rob is located along the deck of the Small Boat Shed on the main grounds. […]