THOMAS FAIRFAX HAMILL 1933 - 2018
Tom Hamill was born in Greenwich, Connecticut. He spent his childhood years in Walpole, New Hampshire and summers on Cape Cod. Tom attended the High Mowing School in New Hampshire, Bowdoin College in Maine, School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and served in the US Army where he was stationed in France. He lived on Cape Cod and in New York City where he began his exploration of life and art.
In the early 1960’s Tom began visiting the west where he eventually fell in love with New Mexico's high alpine desert mountains and stark southwestern landscape. By1964, he permanently settled in Santa Fe and became an integral part of the burgeoning community of bohemian artists on Canyon Road.
Tom was an avid hiker and naturalist, exploring the Colorado Rockies, Wyoming’s Wind River and Teton Ranges, California’s coast, and regularly hiked New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo mountains. Returning to his Canyon Road studio, inspiration from these places spilled out onto drawings and canvases.
Tom lived to express the joy of his individuality through his art, words and even his dance.