Tomas Spicer is a London-based artist whose work emerges from an early experience of being unable to read or write at school. Before language arrived in words, it arrived through looking, drawing, and making. Drawing became a first form of literacy a way of reaching out, making meaning, and understanding the world through attention rather than text.

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His paintings are built through layers of colour, removal, and reworking over periods of time. Image is secondary to what remains: touch, duration, and material memory held in the surface. The works ask for a particular kind of looking slow, patient, and open.

 

They are made for people who like to look.

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