Seeing profound beauty in simplicity, Eric Thompson seeks to evoke deep emotion from the viewer. Eric believes “a painting needs to remind someone of something in their life that they have forgotten.” Summoning that recollection is what Eric’s paintings do. They invoke, as Eric observes, “a beautiful, haunting memory”.
Eric uses light and shadow to communicate a quiet mood through humble and ordinary subjects. As a child Eric would “search out a patch of light entering the room and sit there forever, in total bliss.” Direct sunlight on an object “brings me peace” he reflects.
