My name is Tyler Thomas, and I’ve been making art for as long as I can remember. I am an idealist and a perfectionist, and a painter. I believe if you believe something can become real, it can. If you do not, it cannot. And so I’ve been sustained by hope, or foolishness, or reciprocal energetic feedback. Call it what you will. I am detail oriented when it comes to beginning and completing my paintings. I like to study the subject, and understand it inside and out before the first bit of paint lands on the canvas. I like to make preparatory drawings, contemplating the best angles and hidden structures within my subject. I’ve been fascinated by what is hidden from view my entire life, whether it is the invisible structures of the microscopic world, the hidden realms of the psyche, or the hard earned wisdom and preserved insights of cultures around the globe: I want to examine it and dissect it. I am a jack of all trades, and becoming a master of one: painting. If you can think of it, I can paint it.