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Depot Gallery, Red Lodge
Copper Sun Gallery, Kalispell
Frame Hut and Gallery, Billings
Twin Rivers Gallery, Big Timber
ORGAniZATiOnS AnD ACTiViTiES
Oil Painters of America
Montana Professional Artists Association
Blue Buffalo Artists
Western Masters Artists, Great Falls
Juror of numerous shows, most recently for
Custer County Art Museum, Miles City instructor of oil painting
fInally, What doES your Work rEVEal aBout roBErt
tomPkInS outSIdE thE mEdIum? What Would you lIkE our
rEadErS to knoW aBout your PErSonal attrIButES and
thE lIfE ExPErIEnCES InfluEnCIng your Work?
My interest in art began early, as an immersion in
beauty from the mountain landscape as well as the
connection with my uncle and his sharing of flow-
ers from his rock garden and his slide shows. I also
had a musical education that I believe relates to art
in that it is mathematically based on unity and har-
mony. A well-designed painting involves harmony
just as in music chord structure. I drew in school,
going through an airplane phase, then designs, later
life drawing. In college I took a design course when
possible. I went on to the doctoral level in clinical
psychology, specializing in neuroscience and medi-
cal psychology. I began painting seriously about 25
years ago. My brother. a photographer, mentions
that my art comes from "deep inside.'' When some-
one reacts to a painting emotionally, it doesn't get
much better.
Spanish Peaks Wildflowers
Moving On
The strength of the
movement, the features
and poses are critical
to achieving the dynamic
symmetry I am looking
for in a painting
