Thomas Andersen

Art Brokerage: Thomas Andersen British Artist: b. 1943-2010. Thomas Andersen spent his early childhood in Denmark, his father was from a family who had bred horses for over a hundred years, his mother Estonian, from a seafaring family. Thomas remembers large paintings and tapestries in his grandfather’s farmhouse, perhaps the stories and legends he paints go back to those early years. Thomas arrived in Australia at age seven and was educated at Friends’ School in Hobart. After jobs at the Hobart Museum and CSIRO, he went to England, having gained a position at the British Museum of Natural History. During the many expeditions with the museum to different countries he found painting and drawing specimens easy and engrossing. Throughout these years he played trumpet in various modern jazz groups and held his first exhibition in Copenhagen, the paintings selling almost immediately, his art and the buying public always in harmony. European myths, legends and jazz have been major themes. Thomas, in the tradition of a long line of story-tellers, has produced many art works which illustrate the fabulous worlds of the imagination or eternal themes, from ancient universal traditions and of course, music. Listings wanted.