About the Artist

ARTWORK THAT PUTS A SMILE ON YOUR FACE, JOY IN YOUR HEART, AND BRINGS PEACE TO YOUR SOUL.  This is on Location in Glacier National Park 

Hi everyone,  I really appreciate your purchases, support and kind words to me. I want you ALL to know, I have no retirement benefits, No Pensions, or Civil Service income.  I've earned my living and supported my family for over 40Year, by my artwork & selling to you all WONDERFUL COLLECTORS & BUYERS. THANKS SO VERY MUCH!

 "Rural Autumn Pleasure" 8" x 16" oil on Location

 Here I am Painting on location, (Painting from life) on this Rural Road near my former Hometown of Canon City. I've enjoyed this scene multiple times and have successfully painted it from different times of the year.

Born and raised in Southern Colorado, Tom Lockhart Grew up loving the outdoors.   Taking his first art lesson at the age of 9, all he wanted to do was paint dinosaurs and volcanoes.    Tom later became interested in art through John Gnagy, on TV and later took art classes in school.  Eventually, he moved on into other interests, like playing guitar & singing, he won a Music Scholarship to the College of Emporia Emporia, KS only to be redirected by a professor at the College to try art.    After a very interesting and varied education in the College Fine Arts Program, he graduated with a BFA from ESU Emporia State University and returned to his hometown in Monte Visa, CO where he successfully ran his families retail furniture business until another life changing moment. He met the late Ray Vinella  from Taos, NM and also Bill Moyers, both came to judge a local art show (at his families' furniture Store).  The local art group Alpine Artists Association was thrilled to have these artists judge their annual Event.  Tom later became friends with these artists and was eventually introduced to other artists and venues along with some prominent galleries in the Southwest.  After studying with Ray and other artists such as Lowell Ellsworth Smith, Ted Goerchner, Irvine Shapiro & Wayne Wolfe, Tom began to grow as a representational Artist and entered National Shows/Exhibitions and Plein-Air Events. 

 He later became a Signature Member of the (RMPAP) Rocky Mtn Plein-Air Painters 2000, (NWR) Northwestern Rendezvous Artist 2004, (OPA) Oil, Painters of America 2003, as well as Associate Member of (CWS) Colorado Watercolor Society, (PPWCS) Pikes Peak Watercolor Society & (NOAPS) National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society. He Received the Award of Merit at the 2018 NOAPS National On-Line Exhibition.  Tom became an award-winning artist in Several National and Regional Events.  He was Accepted into the National Arts for the Parks, 1993,94,95,2004 and the top 100 Mini Arts for the Parks.  Most Notably:  Silver Medal Winner Region III for both 1994 and 2004 National Arts for the Parks. 

Best of Show in the CWS Statewide Exhibition 2007.  OPA Western Regional 1st Place and People's Choice 2005, People's Choice NWR Northwestern Rendezvous Exhibition2010, Southwest Art Magazine's Choice for Best Plein-Air winner in 2006 Telluride Plein-Air Festival.  and BEST OF SHOW Winner for 3 Plein-Air Events, SouthPark Plein-Air & Southwest Arts Plein-Air Magazine Winner, Victor Celebrates the Arts, and The Sangre Arts Guild all in Colorado 2011.   Tom was also Chosen along with 15 Nationally recognized Artists for the Artist Magazine/Watercolor Magazine's feature Article: "Colorado Markings." At the Forbes Trinchera Ranch in Southern Colorado.  The Forbes Family then invited them to Show at their Forbes Magazine Gallery in New York City, 2000.

Tom has also been featured in Art of the West Magazine May/June issue 1998, Southwest Magazine 2006 and was featured on the cover of the Magazine.  Arto of the West in 2018. and Western Art Collector in 2022.