Actriz (2010) Drawing by Thommy

Tomás Amaya (Thommy)
Honduran by birth of the municipality Teupasenti el Paraíso C.A.

I am a self-taught painter and Ambidextro who began to draw at the young age of 8 years with a single charcoal pencil HB in my youth I managed to make more than 200 pencil drawings in charcoal, colors, and markers of which by the disaster of Hurricane Mich I lost Most of them are only three of whom are still in my custody. At the age of 15, I asked my father to enter the School of Fine Arts, which he flatly refused, receiving from him the hurtful words "You will die of hunger". selling paintings in the central park of Tegucigalpa¨ and then enrolling in the Central Institute Vicente Cáceres, in the career of Commercial Expert and Public Accountant, where with my commercial experience I was able to obtain several titles, recognitions and positions of leadership in the public sphere and private. My love of art and the desire to fulfill my dreams never died, in the morning I worked and at night and in the early hours of the morning I drew, I decided to make my first exhibition after losing my job and after the separation of my wife and my son, which has been my greatest inspiration to which I have portrayed several times, I started with the charcoal pencil technique and with several shades, I continued with the technique of charcoal bars, sometimes the technique of ink, then the technique of pastel chalk dry, continue with the tempera technique, then the acrylic technique and finally the oil technique, achieving today to create again 156 works between drawings and paintings which are also under my custody.
Exhibitions and Invitations
I participated in the Encuentro de dos mundos exhibition in 2012 at the Poetiza Clementina Suarez Gallery, Meeting between artist friends, in 2013, La Varona painting exhibition in the Sistine Gallery of Valle de Ángeles 2013, Exhibition La Casona in Ojojona year 2014, I have been invited to exhibitions in Brussels, Belgium, Rome, Italy, New York, United States.
Thinking about art
Art is the life of each artist, the pure and clean feeling of each person who has talent, art is life, is to express our thoughts, painting and drawing come out of our mind as a feeling and is concretized by means of our hands as a beautiful creation, divine passion of each being, of each artist that inside them there is a seed that the divine creator sowed, a talent that opens up paths and spreads light and hope to all who enjoy the true feeling called: Art. Art is something that can not be expressed in so few words, because it encompasses an infinite space both in the one who creates it and the one who enjoys it.

• Nationality: HONDURAS
• Date of birth : 1977
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Honduran Artists