Here, Perkinson chose to depict a Sioux settlement. The viewer is invited to step into the painting to explore the scene within and imagine gazing at an easel of a plein-air painter with the blue sky, clouds, and grasses in full view. "Sioux Camp," an original mixed media on paper by Tom Perkinson, is a piece for the true collector. His use of saturated violets, vivid yellows, and resplendent oranges pushes color to almost-otherworldly realms.
He currently resides in Corrales, New Mexico, where he has lived for 20 years with his wife, renowned jewelry artist Louise Perkinson. His work is also included in the May 2006 book titled Landscapes of New Mexico, Paintings From the Land of Enchantment. His work is included in private and public collections across the globe and he is represented in the collections of many museums, including the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, the University Art Museum in Albuquerque and the Eiteljorg Museum of Western Art in Indianapolis. After more than four decades now as an artist painting New Mexico, Perkinson has built a prolific career. “None of these places exist”, he says, “I just make them up as I paint them." It was this preference for spontaneity that led to watercolor as his preferred medium. Soon, a distinctive, sprung-from-the-imagination style he came to describe as romantic realism began evolving. Turner, George Inness and James Mcneill Whistler. As his love of the New Mexico landscape grew, his work matured, finding influence in J.M.W. Steele, Vawter, Schultze and Forsythe, Perkinson’s early work focused on landscape, still life and city scenes.
Influenced by early painters of the southern Indiana landscape, painters like T. He had found what would become an infinite source of inspiration. Here, he continued to paint the landscape and it was this work that began to reflect a new fascination with the Southwest. He received a degree in art from Oklahoma Baptist University in 1964, before moving on to graduate school at the University of New Mexico. He fostered that talent through classes at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and then at the Chicago Art Academy upon graduating from high school. As a child, Perkinson discovered he had a love for the natural landscape and a talent for art. Tom Perkinson, born in Indiana in 1940, has become distinguished as a regional painter, known for his work grounded in the visually dramatic landscape of the Southwest.
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