About the Artist
I am the son of the wonderful, inspiring artists Mireille and Phil Wood, and the grandson of the great California artist Gottardo Piazzoni. I’ve shown in over forty solo and over sixty group exhibits, many to support land- and water-conservation causes. My work hangs in numerous collections. I show yearly in Marin Agricultural Land Trust’s “Ranches and Rolling Hills”; I’ve painted to help the West Marin Environmental Action Committee, the Marin Conservation League, the Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuary, Russian Riverkeeper, Buckelew Houses (“Marin/Scapes”), and others. I painted a twenty-foot mural triptych, Tomales Bay, that hung in the Point Reyes (CA) Library 1998-2003, and my work appeared in the California “State Senate Art Collection 2000”. In 2005, a painting, California Hills, was selected for the program “Art in the Embassies” (U.S. Embassy, Belize).
Thomas Wood
PO Box 612
Nicasio CA 94946
6/24/08
In the Point Reyes National Seashore
A commissioned painting
Born in San Francisco, I spent childhood summers at the family ranch (settled by my great-grandfather in the 1880s) in the Carmel Valley, where I painted the golden, oak-studded hills and brushy canyons in the California light. Thus began my lifelong love of painting and reverence for nature.
I attended the University of California Berkeley and San Francisco State University, earning an advanced degree, not in art but in English. I taught writing and literature in New York and California before deciding, in the 1980s, to pursue a professional career as an artist. I live in Nicasio, California.
