Artwork Description:

Title: Derby Museum and Art Gallery

Derby Museum and Art Gallery was established in 1879 in a new building designed by Richard Knill Freeman and given to Derby by Michael Thomas Bass.

The art gallery holds the world’s largest collection of paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby.

This view is from Friar Gate where a shop clock provides an interesting composition and the afternoon sun lights up the museum tower.

Artist Bio:

Working quickly with a fountain pen, waterproof ink and watercolour, Tom captures views of cafes, city streets and rural views in an urban sketch style.  Some of these are worked into larger pictures back in the studio using pen and wash or oil.  Sometimes an image demands to be painted and battles a path via sketches and photographs to be released from just an idea to become a finished piece of work.

Tom has always been fascinated by our impact on the landscape and started sketching the urban environment of cafes, railway stations and airports while travelling for work.  Now Tom can often be found sketching and painting in and around Derby and enjoys chatting to onlookers about art techniques, the history of local buildings or where to find the best coffee and cake.