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The Professional Life of Thomas Nash
This year, nationally acclaimed
Georgia based artist Thomas V. Nash is celebrating his
35th year as a full time professional portrait painter.
At the age of 54 he is a recognized leader in his field.
Notable among his portrait commissions are the official
portrait of former Speaker
of the House Newt Gingrich that hangs in the U.S.
Capitol, the official portrait of former Georgia Governor
and Senator, Zell Miller,
and portraits of former Senator Sam Nunn and former
Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr.
Nash received the first of his many national awards
for portrait painting in 1981. He has served on the
boards of various professional portrait organizations
including several years on the Board of Advisors of
the American Society of Portrait Artists and
the Portrait Society of Atlanta, where as a charter
member, he has also served as president and is one of
only four Members of Excellence.
Tom’s state of the art portrait painting studio in Roswell,
Georgia, is well known to artists from a feature article
in American Artist Magazine in 1992. Some
of his work is featured in the recently released Watson-Guptill
book
Powercolor
by Caroline Jasper.
Recently Tom has served on the faculty of the Portrait
Society of America at conferences in Chicago and
Washington D.C. and the American Society of Portrait
Artists in New York City, addressing participants and
answering questions regarding the art and profession
of portrait painting today. His demonstration portrait
at the ASOPA conference in Montgomery Alabama in 1997
was considered by many in attendance to be one of the
best live portrait demonstrations they had ever seen.
As a member of his community Nash has spoken to students
at area schools on career day and contributed to various
worthwhile charitable causes, often bringing the high
bid of the evening for his donated works.
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