Tom Repasky

I began painting in early 1970s. Like most folks who have had a near death experience the drive to express ones self and philosophy is compelling perhaps even compulsive. I write stories and play music but I am most fascinated with visual art. After 20+ years of painting with acrylics, oils, pastels and anything else I could find, I tried doing art on a computer beginning in 1980s. Programs were crude and the art even rougher. By the early 1990s the computer programs became more sophisticated and processing power could keep up with more and more complex scenes. I am particularly interested in textures and light/shadow. I am also very interested in how we perceive things and so much of my art tends to be surreal and/or abstract. My art examines aspects of perception, archetypes, and metaphysical elements of the human experience. I typically do several images in a series before discovering a new topic to examine. These topics have ranged from the rooms of the human mind to ambiguity of form. Over the past 10 years I have created more than 4000 images of which I show over 1300 on my website. I believe art is to be seen and as such I have made my art freely available to a world wide audience.

Tom Repasky was born to an Ohio farm family in 1949. He entered a seminary when he was 13 years old with the intention of becoming a Catholic priest. That year, however, he died as a result of falling off a cliff, and his perception of life was irrevocably altered. After leaving the seminary, finishing high school, and being expelled from Kent State University three times, Tom moved to Los Angeles and entered the "Monastery" (the field of electronics in the 1960's). He moved to Portland, Oregon in 1974, after 30+ years he now lives in the San Franscio Bay Area.

After his death experience, Tom's perception of himself and of physical "reality" changed drastically. He awoke to a kaleidoscopic world of changing energy patterns formed and shaped by the intellect of the "God Machine" known as humanity. Tom's art is a manifestation of his inner drive to explain the spectrum of spiritual reality in a visual format; hence his fascination with the interplay between light and shadow, color and form. Tom began painting with acrylics in the early seventies, moving to the digital medium in the early nineties. Using the computer to manipulate reality variables has opened a versatile and fascinating genre of expression to him. He has produced a prolific body of work (over 4000 images) since 1995. His images are an outpouring of his unique view of the Universe Within.

Art is anything that moves the observer in some tangible way.
Without an observer there can be no art.

I began painting in early 1970s. Like most folks who have had a near death experience the drive to express ones self and philosophy is compelling perhaps even compulsive. I write stories and play music but I am most fascinated with visual art.

After 20+ years of painting with acrylics, oils, pastels and anything else I could find, I tried doing art on a computer beginning in 1980s. Programs were crude and the art even rougher. By the early 1990s the computer programs became more sophisticated and processing power could keep up with more and more complex scenes. I am particularly interested in textures and light/shadow. I am also very interested in how we perceive things and so much of my art tends to be surreal and/or abstract. My art examines aspects of perception, archetypes, and metaphysical elements of the human experience.

I typically do several images in a series before discovering a new topic to examine. These topics have ranged from the rooms of the human mind to ambiguity of form. Over the past 10 years I have created more than 4000 images of which I show over 1300 on my website. I believe art is to be seen and as such I have made my art freely available to a world wide audience.