Artist’s Statement

“My painting style I call “Toonstract.” For more than four decades I’ve combined my two great passions—cartooning and abstraction. Both fit me well: detail-laden, yet childlike and simplified. I feel deeply led to be a colorist, an all too accurate term used by the great artist Miriam Beerman. I find it near-impossible not to use all the tones, hues, liquids and pigments possible that I can bring to bear. Yet I still crave ultraviolet, neon, and florescent. The Wake-Your-Neighbors, Howl-At-The-Moon, Retina-wrestling shades I cannot mix or currently recreate.

I am a frustrated muralist. If I could work on the scale I want, my work would cover entire walls instead of 9 x 12” sheets of paper. Being confined to a work area the size of a parking space, I work on the floor, a few sheets of paper at a time; I rarely get to see my finished work assembled into whole pieces.

My themes are widespread, from inspiration drawn from other fine modern painters, enemies, friends, lovers, dreams, and nightmares. Memories and longings. [I have] very little resource material to draw from, but am unlimited in showing what I think, know, and feel.”

William Greg Thomas

About the artist:

Mr. Thomas has been housed on Florida’s death row since 1993, though maintaining his innocence. He has been painting since childhood, and art (both his own and others’) continues to be his greatest passion. He is limited to working with 9 x 12 inch pieces of paper, which he assembles to create the larger “canvasses” he craves.

Website Contact:

khauser6521@gmail.com