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1. Adrift, 2009, watercolor, gouache, egg tempera, charcoal, pastels and found image
     on paper, 23" x 30"
2. With a Face, 2010, charcoal, graphite, watercolor, egg tempera, photography and
     found images on paper, 16" x 20"
3. Torino Pink Dress, 2008, photography, found images, watercolor, egg tempera,
     gouache, pastel and graphite on paper, 10" x 14"
4. Escape First, 2010, watercolor, gouache, egg tempera, graphite, charcoal, pastels,
     photography and found images on paper, 22" x 30"
5. Amorphous Drawing, 2009, charcoal and graphite on paper, 22" x 30"
6. Warm Shadows, 2010, photography, found images, watercolor, gouache
      and graphite on paper, 11" x 12"
7. Outside the Lines, 2007, photography, found images, gouache, watercolor,
     pastel, ink and graphite on paper, 23" x 22"
8. Columns in a Sea, 2008, found images, watercolor, egg tempera, charcoal
     and pencil on paper, 21-1/2" x 21-1/2"
9. Shades of Bologna, 2009, photography, gouache, watercolor, pastel and
     graphite on paper, 18" x 16"
10. Face with Walls, 2009, screen shot from my film, egg tempera, fabric and
     pastels on paper, 10" x 15"
11. Reflections, 2010, photography, pastels, watercolor, egg tempera and
      found images on paper, 13" x 19"
12. Under Control, 2005, photography, found images, slice of an x-ray, watercolor,
       gouache, egg tempera and graphite on paper, 12-1/2" x 19"
13. 3D Pieces of a Room, 2009, photography, watercolor, gouache and found
       images on canvas, 10-1/2" x 10-1/2"
14. Sails in the Mix, 2005, ound images, ex-ray, watercolor, egg tempera and ink
        on paper, 13" x 19"
15. World One, 2008, photography, found images, watercolor, egg tempera,
       gouache and graphite on paper, 22" x 30"

Contact Information
Philadelphia, PA 19103
tel: 215-569-1113
e-mail: trishthomp@gmail.com
e-mail: trish@art-fashion-travel.com
www.art-fashion-travel.com
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Artist Statement
My work involves film, photography, painting and the combination thereof. All are my passions and observation is my first passion and tool for beginning this process. I often work with watercolor, gouache and egg tempera together with graphite pencil, pastel and other mediums that when combined have a less predictable outcome. I find those accidental discoveries more interesting than the often structured and predestined directions in which my earlier single-medium work led me.

In some of the work, I begin with a photograph I have taken or a screen shot from a film I have made. It’s the moment they were captured that I find provocative. I will print such selections and respond again by painting into the image. I compose a layering of ideas, comparisons and juxtapositions that form their own world and are open to interpretation.

I am intrigued and attracted to the idea of the arrested state of decay and all of its mysterious beauty, patterns and the way in which it retains a complex yet organic order. This happens in nature and in the built environment. The patterns in my work often start with edges and lines that move and weave their way through the work, finding their place in the context of the composition and its borders almost subconsciously. The instinctive connections between one shape and another are something of a puzzle that works out with exploration and experimentation. A friend referred to my work as “a landscape of the mind,” I think of it as a creative stream of consciousness, where I am building and creating a different kind of tension and structure, space and sensibility. The ambiguity of space and perspective are elements I use in much of my work in order to create images that immerse the viewer into the unique compositional relationships, but in a way wholly defined by his or her point of view.

Selected Exhibitions

2005
The Gallery at The Mills, Philadelphia, PA

2004
Gallery Exhibit 231, Philadelphia, PA

2002–2003
American Academy, Rome, Italy

Artist Bio
From 1976 - 1998 I worked in the fashion industry and co-owned the store Toby Lerner. From 1999 - 2006 I worked as a business, design and creative consultant to people in the fashion world.

I spent 2002 - 2003 at the American Academy in Rome with my husband, who had won a Rome prize that year. It was a life-changing experience to be immersed in an intimate community of artists and scholars. I am now more committed to pursuing the path of making art more than ever before.

Education
1971 - 1974
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Awarded scholarship to study painting

1970 - 1971
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Lectures and Talks
2002
Presenter, "Fine Arts, Fashion and Design" American Academy, Rome, Italy