1915 - 2009. Known for: Painting.
Artist Tom Esplin was born in 1915. Esplin was well known for his distinctive European village scenes coupled with the heavy application of oil paint by both brush and palette knife. Tom Esplin began...
Read full biography Artist Tom Esplin was born in 1915. Esplin was well known for his distinctive European village scenes coupled with the heavy application of oil paint by both brush and palette knife. Tom Esplin began working on such subjects in the 1970s. The works found a ready market allowing the Esplin to return...
Read full biography Artist Tom Esplin was born in 1915. Esplin was well known for his distinctive European village scenes coupled with the heavy application of oil paint by both brush and palette knife. Tom Esplin began working on such subjects in the 1970s. The works found a ready market allowing the Esplin to return to Europe on regular painting trips with his wife Edith. The couple also traveled widely in China and the Pacific. In his early years, Scottish born Esplin exhibited at the Royal Society of Artists,...
Read full biography Artist Tom Esplin was born in 1915. Esplin was well known for his distinctive European village scenes coupled with the heavy application of oil paint by both brush and palette knife. Tom Esplin began working on such subjects in the 1970s. The works found a ready market allowing the Esplin to return to Europe on regular painting trips with his wife Edith. The couple also traveled widely in China and the Pacific. In his early years, Scottish born Esplin exhibited at the Royal Society of Artists, London and the Royal Society of Watercolourists, Scotland. He gained a Diploma of Fine Arts at Edinburgh College, Scotland. Arriving in New Zealand in 1954 the artist spent 30 years as Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of...
Read full biography Artist Tom Esplin was born in 1915. Esplin was well known for his distinctive European village scenes coupled with the heavy application of oil paint by both brush and palette knife. Tom Esplin began working on such subjects in the 1970s. The works found a ready market allowing the Esplin to return to Europe on regular painting trips with his wife Edith. The couple also traveled widely in China and the Pacific. In his early years, Scottish born Esplin exhibited at the Royal Society of Artists, London and the Royal Society of Watercolourists, Scotland. He gained a Diploma of Fine Arts at Edinburgh College, Scotland. Arriving in New Zealand in 1954 the artist spent 30 years as Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of Otago School of Design. Retirement resulted in a busy life as a successful full time professional artist. Tom passed away in 2009.