Tom Berry 6/10/20 Tom Berry 6/10/20

Painting ‘Starmaker’

Here’s a short edit which shows a little of the way i’ve been working on more recent screen prints. The design is being painted onto clear film, a method of creating *positives which can result in more sensitive and tonal print. The ink is alcohol based, and i’m using mineral spirit to work back into the block areas to create washes.

Tom Berry 4/13/20 Tom Berry 4/13/20

Interview with Cuemars

I’ve worked with Cuemars for a few years now - their shop on Brick Lane is a sort of deluxe botanical living room, and i’m happy to be one of the few visual artists that features there…

Tom Berry 3/30/20 Tom Berry 3/30/20

New Print | Fire in the Belly

Screen printing is a flexible process and you can approach it from many ways. Some printmakers barely get their hands dirty, drawing and laying out most of their images digitally.

Tom Berry 3/19/20 Tom Berry 3/19/20

Dear World Project | Collaboration with Elisa van der Plas & the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging

This collaboration was part of Dear World, a project which explores mental health. It paired seven artists with seven researchers from the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging

Tom Berry 3/3/20 Tom Berry 3/3/20

Ethiopia

Ethiopia contained some beautiful religious art. All of the examples here were taken from inside different rock-hewn churches - deep underground in Lalibela, or in Tigray, high up in remote mountain spots.

Tom Berry 2/27/20 Tom Berry 2/27/20

Ideas for pictures

A list of some of the many ideas for pictures, written down in notebooks over the last three years:

Tom Berry 3/25/19 Tom Berry 3/25/19

I make art, because

Many people have an urge to create art and make things, and I can’t remember a time when I haven’t felt this way. Perhaps because the impulse has been so constant for me, i’ve largely taken it for granted and never really thought about why I do what I do.