Lot Essay
]oms Snchez paints carefully detailed tropical landscapes that play upon the meditative qualitites of nature's beauty and serenity. Bird's eye views and infinite vistas lure the viewer into quiet waters and forests of green where the only sounds are the breezes wafting through the trees. In the tranquility of the forest, man is but a small figure lost among the verdant groves of towering trunks. Beneath the canopy of tall sentinels, one imagines a clearing of tall grass beckoning the artist to search further and probe the dark mysteries that lie buried within the depths of the canvas. The viewer becomes a privileged companion. Shifting perspectives seduce the spectator to go deeper, while the scene from above reveals infinitesimal reaches of thickly grown jungles. Only from afar does the view reveal an oasis of water, a clearing of hope. Then, upon very close examination, the density of the forest gives way to the tiny figure of a man.
Toms Snchez is the man sitting quietly beneath the trees. Lost in reverie, he appears to be contemplating his surroundings, perhaps debating whether to go deeper into the jungle. The trees bend forward to open a path of protection; one feels his hesitation before their ultimate supremacy. Toms Snchez possesses a mystical vision of nature. Like the Romantic poets and painters of the nineteenth century, he is a conscious exponent of the belief that there is something in nature that is so full of the divine that if it were contemplated with sufficient devotion, it would reveal a spiritual quality of its own. Stunned by nature's beauty, he is rendered immobile in the torrid stillness of the forest.
With a genuine concern for the environment and intense about his images of poetical solitude, Toms Snchez creates works that have a compelling effect on the viewer. They are both seductively beautiful and powerful statements about the future of nature. Every palm frond, blade of grass and tiny leaf is meticulously described with phenomenal skill producing not only an exact replica of nature, but the perception of light that describes each detail as it filters through from sky to earth. The pristine and humbling beauty of land and water, in endless panoramas and perfect arrangements that once were original to the earth's creation, may now be only a divine creation of the artist.
Carol Damian
Miami, April 1998
Toms Snchez is the man sitting quietly beneath the trees. Lost in reverie, he appears to be contemplating his surroundings, perhaps debating whether to go deeper into the jungle. The trees bend forward to open a path of protection; one feels his hesitation before their ultimate supremacy. Toms Snchez possesses a mystical vision of nature. Like the Romantic poets and painters of the nineteenth century, he is a conscious exponent of the belief that there is something in nature that is so full of the divine that if it were contemplated with sufficient devotion, it would reveal a spiritual quality of its own. Stunned by nature's beauty, he is rendered immobile in the torrid stillness of the forest.
With a genuine concern for the environment and intense about his images of poetical solitude, Toms Snchez creates works that have a compelling effect on the viewer. They are both seductively beautiful and powerful statements about the future of nature. Every palm frond, blade of grass and tiny leaf is meticulously described with phenomenal skill producing not only an exact replica of nature, but the perception of light that describes each detail as it filters through from sky to earth. The pristine and humbling beauty of land and water, in endless panoramas and perfect arrangements that once were original to the earth's creation, may now be only a divine creation of the artist.
Carol Damian
Miami, April 1998