TRANSCEND: A UNIT LONDON MEMORIAL EXHIBIT TO BRITISH ARTIST TOM FRENCH

On Christmas day 2019, at the young age of 37, British painter Tom French lost his battle with cancer and the art world mourned.

An incredible talent with a distinct vision, Tom French’s work embodies the very best of art. His pieces are beautiful, yet also thought-provoking, reminding us that “art for art’s sake” doesn’t explain the depths that art can take us.

The Exhibit

Unit London, a chic art gallery located in London’s Soho district, had the honor of representing Tom’s work in a joint mission to present art to the public that is beautiful, open, and real. It is with a heavy heart for Tom’s passing, but also with a reverence for Tom’s craft and humanity, that they present Transcend, an exhibition to memorialize the artist and the man. Viewers will have a unique opportunity to experience and remember Tom through both his Dualities and Parallax series, which will run throughout the month of February.

While a talented painter, Tom was also a visionary. His work marries the abstract with photorealism and at the same time shows them to be distinct entities. This was representative of Tom’s view of the relationship between the mind and the body—separate entities that must also cohabitate. This tension between the transcendent and the tangible elements of our makeup is represented by abstract brushstrokes against hyper-realistic charcoal drawings. For many of Tom’s pieces, these contrasting elements come together to form a broader image.

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