{"title":"Thomas, Brenda","description":"\u003cp data-lfile-container=\"a77e926f-bcf4-4c1c-bb11-6cd1d1c391d2\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003eS|O Gallery is pleased to present the work of Brenda Thomas. Thomas makes art drawn from the subjects she knows most intimately: home, family, friendship, and motherhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas often works with everyday subject matter, using images as personal symbols that call up her memory of a relationship, a period of time, or a specific event. She describes her memory as working in \"snapshots,\" and her pieces aim to tell each story as she has come to understand it. For Thomas, a work succeeds when viewers recognize an experience of their own within it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer range reflects more than 35 years as a visual arts educator, a role that required her to teach and master nearly every medium. Although she typically describes herself as a painter, Thomas works regularly in graphite, colored pencil, charcoal, and a variety of experimental printmaking processes. Mixed media is the most significant outcome of that breadth: she selects whatever materials best serve the narrative, and considers her mixed-media pieces the truest reflection of how she thinks. Most recently, she has been exploring encaustic as a new means of expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer portfolio spans quilts, landscapes and still-life scenes, figurative work, and small-scale treasure boxes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/5905\/2781\/collections\/Thomas_Brenda.jpg?v=1791923507","url":"https:\/\/sumrallorsak.myshopify.com\/collections\/thomas-brenda.oembed","provider":"S|O Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}