Contemporary Paintings From the Threshold Between Worlds
Through symbolism, abstraction, and atmospheric imagery, Tom Applegate creates paintings that explore the shifting space between reality, memory, emotion, and the unseen.
Featured works
don’t Play With Whitey
7×10 inch Oil on Panel.
The Boss
30×40 inch Oil on Canvas.
Manta in a Dream
24×36 Oil on Panel.
Blue earth
20×24 Oil on Canvas
The Pond
30×48 Oil on Canvas.
The Domestics
24×36 Oil on Panel.
Rather than documenting reality directly, Applegate’s paintings invite viewers into contemplative spaces that exist somewhere between dream, memory, and lived experience. His work resists fixed narrative, instead offering atmospheres charged with ambiguity, stillness, psychological tension, and quiet transcendence.
Abstracts
Abstract worlds exploring imagined environments.
Tom Applegate
My work is shaped by a lifetime of disciplined practice—both in the studio and in the field. Years as a climber, surfer, wildlife biologist and outdoor explorer inform a visual language grounded in observation, structure, and restraint. In addition to my art, I create a line of professional art panels for myself and other artists.
