Tom Browning, CA

Born in Ontario, Oregon in 1949, Tom Browning has been painting professionally since 1972. Starting out with wildlife as a choice of subject matter, Tom worked primarily in black and white using a medium known as scratchboard. Learning to properly see values and creating such a convincing sense of light have been instrumental to Browning's success.

Now working primarily in oils, Tom's subject matter takes in a wide scope that knows no boundaries. Still life and figures, however, make up the majority of his work, and are always the subjects in his workshops that he teaches around the country each year.

Since becoming a member of the Northwest Rendezvous Group in 1986, Browning has been a four time recipient of the judges' merit awards, and in 1994 he received an Award of Excellence from the NWR Group. Tom is a member of the Portrait Painters Society of America, and he has been a guest artist's at the National Academy of Western Art and the Plein Air Painters of America. He also participates in the Prix de West Show at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, and the Quest for the West Show at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis.

2009 was a big year for Tom. In January the mural "The Adoration of the Christ Child" for St. Mary's in Boise, Idaho was installed. In June he was awarded the Prix de West Award at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum for "Dawn of a New Day". In October Tom was elected into the prestigious Cowboy Artists Of America.

"Out of the Brush" New Oil by Tom Browning, 20"x40"

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