Tom Glover
Tom Glover was born in Keene, NH. He graduated with a B.F.A. degree in painting at the University of NH, Durham and worked closely with Maine painter John Laurent up until Laurent's death in 2005. He studied painting restoration with the conservator Anthony Moore in York, Maine. For several years lectured at the University of Connecticut to science education graduate students on, "The Landscape, Mythology and the Artist". He has also taught painting at the University of New Hampshire, D.C.E., and workshops on the Isles of Shoals, NH/ME. Presently he teaches painting at Sanctuary Arts in Eliot, Maine.
In 1996, he was artist in residence on White Island, Isles of Shoals. In 2000, he was awarded a fellowship to work on Great Spruce Head Island where he used Fairfield Porter's easel and on a second stay the following summer used Eliot Porter's old darkroom as living and painting quarters. He began seeking out the masters during several trips over the past two decades to Italy, England, Ireland, France, Spain and Denmark. He was artist in residence at Rancho Romero, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, and a visiting artist at Monticello, New Mexico exploring canyons, Apache Forts and possible Anasazi ruins. In 2016 he was artist in residence at the Shoals Marine Lab on Appledore Island, Isle of Shoals. In 2023 he joined Shoals Resident Artist alumni for a three day painting stay on Appledore to create work to benefit the Shoals Marine Lab.
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