Will Thoms

Born in Winchester, Massachusetts, 1945.

Attended the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (BA 1967) and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1968).

Moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, 1970.

Began drawing and painting in earnest in the mid 1970’s.

First solo exhibit at Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco, 1978.

Married Paula Delehanty, 1980. Together they have five children, including two from Will’s first marriage, and seven grandchildren.

Joined Gallery Route One in Point Reyes, CA, 2007.

Each of my paintings begins with a regular grid, a neutral field, from which the question arises - or rather the challenge... Let's see what can happen next?

I want each painting to have a clear physical presence and to come forward from its place on the wall to meet you, the viewer. There is no illusion and no reference to anything beyond the thing itself. The driving impulse for me is always one of hopeful, open-ended experimentation and the simple pleasure of making something new.