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Intro and news
February 21, 2010
Welcome to my web site! I hope you'll enjoy looking around
my various groups of images.
If you're in New Orleans, I'll be having occasional showings in my courtyard as weather permits. If you're not able to make it for these, you can give me a call or email anytime to arrange a viewing at my studio. (see contact for location, etc.)
Openings:
• Gate A continuing series of abstract paintings, drawings, and digital work.
New images February, 2010:
»Sun's Beam
»Southwest Song of the Sea
»Easter Egg
• Aperture A continuing series of photographs. A variety of scenic and other photographs.
Newest photos, February, 2010:
»Flowers and Iron
»Berries and Palm Leaves
»Zulu Float
»Dauphine Street
• Way A continuing series of calligraphic, sometimes abstract landscape paintings.
New paintings added recently:
»A Tree in the Country for Shitao
»Strata
»Not Knowing
»Weaving Evening
»Wetland
• Fenestration Continuing photographic series about windows, doors, gates, and reflections in and on them. Eighty-one new photographs are posted August, 2009.
• Naissance, a continuing series of paintings depicting a new mythology.
New Painting added July, 2009:
»Gift of Aletheia's Daughter
• Avenue, a continuing series of street scenes of New Orleans.
New paintings added recently:
»Idea Factory added September, 2009
»Preservation Hall added July, 2009
»St. Peter Street Morning added April, 2009
»Dave's House After Hurricane Gustav added March, 2009
• Green Door New photo series - February 2009. An adventure in New Orleans - come into the magic garden.
• Clearing Openings in the forest - two series of photographs, one of which illustrates a poem
November 19, 2009: This series, originally made in 2002, has been redone. All photographs have been re-edited and improved, and are now available as prints.
Sales
Many of the original paintings are for sale. Contact me directly about purchase of these.
Limited edition, signed prints: I can make digital prints of all images to order, using fine-art-grade inkjet (also called giclée) inks and papers. I use HP 38 series fine-art-grade pigment based inks with compatible papers. This is the cutting edge in permanence, independently tested and expected to last at least 200 years without fading. (Prints of paintings will not have copyright notice on them). Contact me directly about ordering and purchase of these.
Unsigned prints: You may also buy many of the images in high-quality giclée prints, matted, framed (or not) to your order, easily and inexpensively through Fine Art America. Use the links from the images here to find out the many printing and framing options and make your order.
Many images are also available as unsigned prints, to order, through Imagekind, if you prefer.
Bio
Originally from north central Wisconsin, Tom Hefko grew up working in his family's business, growing flowers in greenhouses and fields. He learned about the beauty of nature and the workings of nature from his grandfather and parents, and many others. Hiking and camping in the countryside of Wisconsin amplified his love of the natural world. Nature was his religion and his inspiration as he started to take art seriously in his early teens. Nature for Hefko included exploration of the inner worlds of the mind and soul, and this was always part of his work.
He experimented with many facets of and kinds of art. Learning calligraphy, watercolor painting, and drawing. Experimenting with abstract expressionist oils culminated with his first one-man show, in high school. From 1967 - 1970, he studied art at Stout State University and at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, learning design, life drawing, etc., and taking up acrylic painting. He went on to work in many styles and media, showing at art fairs, streetside, shops, restaurants, and galleries. He participated in group shows as well and had several retrospectives.
Around 1990, he began to work more with computer imagery and photography and on the emerging World Wide Web, seeing the website as an artwork in its own right. Gradually he withdrew from painting and drawing.
In 2003 he moved to New Orleans and, getting caught up with the enthusiasm among many people there for painting, he began to make paintings again.
Today he lives and works at his studio in the French Quarter working
with photography, painting in various media, and exploring the possibilities
of digital tools.
All, after all, with the idea of bringing forth the beautiful and amazing
images within and without us.
Exit: where to go from here
Check out some of the other pages I've put up recently:
Ted Hefko, my son, the musician.
Nikki Hefko, my daughter-in-law, the dancer.
Now We Live Everywhere, a site I design and maintain for some friends.
Use my listing of major indexes and imagebases for:
Finding Art on the World Wide Web
I've also made a number of webliographies for some of my favorite great artists of the past:
Matsuo Basho
William Blake
Chuang Tzu (Zhuang Zi)
John Coltrane
Reverend Gary Davis
Emily Dickinson
Hadewijch
Akira Kurosawa
Lalla (Lal Ded)
Henri Matisse
Claude Monet
William Morris
Georgia O' Keeffe
Kenneth Patchen
Sappho
Shitao (Daoji)
Gertrude Stein
Walt Whitman
Copyright © Tom Hefko 1997 — 2010. All Rights Reserved
All images and writing published in this site are
the original work of Tom Hefko unless otherwise attributed. (All logos and other tags linked directly to organizations and businesses are the property of those to which they are linked). Permission not implied nor given to use any work copyrighted by Tom Hefko unless expressly given by Tom Hefko.
