proprietary glances pencil portraits and artwork by tom hunter

Proprietary Glances.

History

Welcome to our history page. Here you will find a brief history of the artist, Tom Hunter, and links to some of his work.

Born in Glasgow at the end of the fifties, Tom was drawing and painting from an early age. He was encouraged by his family, especially his mother Margaret, to copy the old masters such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rubens, David, and later some of the more contemporary artists like Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. This provided Tom with the inspiration to study fine art and to continue with his training after leaving secondary education. But this was now the 70's, and it was a fun time for those who remember it!
His initial line of work was Retail Clothing and the constant exposure to the General Public and their myriad of different features drew our artist to study faces. He became almost obsessed with not staring at people and would often find it difficult to explain himself if it were noticed that he was. Despite this Tom developed a keen eye for facial features as can be seen from his portraits.
Through the 80's and into the 90's Tom was involved in several interior projects. Designing and implementing artwork for Bill Hutchinson's Hi Fi stores across the country, and providing the interior decoration for child and family adventure / play centres like Playawaydays. As you can imagine, this latter contract led to many of the play centre's clients to commission Tom to decorate their kids bedrooms and to design little interior touches like trompe l'oeil panels throughout their homes. Tom and his work partner Robert were featured in a local newspaper for their refreshing and inspiring designs.

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