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The stars that play, flicker, and dance across the deep dark skies of the calm Tahitian nights offer us visual constructions of hope. As our studio nighttime activity, like young children, our visual awareness grows increasingly through the enthusiasm of our imagination seduced by the possibilities of so many other living things in an existence larger than our own.
This positive human emotion of hope feels like the appropriate directions for the first print work released after almost 2 years of a worldwide epidemic. “Reach for the Stars”, part of the ongoing “Coconut Radio” series was painted flat on the studio floor and then tilted so that the paint, itself, would flow upwards to reach for the stars.
-Tom Everhart 2022
The larger-than-life paintings of Tom Everhart straddle the line between the comfortably familiar and a new way of seeing. The Peanuts comic strip is arguably the longest story ever told by one human being. Schulz never wanted to have an illustrator step into his shoes and continue to draw the Peanuts comic strip after he could no longer do so – Charles Schultz (creator of Peanuts) authorized Tom Everhart for life to continue the Peanuts story in fine art form.
Tom’s new vision of Schulz’s creations has been exhibited in some of the largest museums around the world, including the Louvre.
