Tom Forrestall
RCA, OC

 

FLOWERS AT SUMMER HOUSE
watercolour
15 x 22.5 in.
$3,000

 

"LOOPINS"
watercolour
22.5 x 15 in.
$3,000

 

  

 

 

VERSO "LOOPINS": HAT TAKEN OFF TABLE

BASE OF FULLER FALLS
watercolour
15 x 22.5 in.
$3,000

 

MATTHEW'S JEEP
watercolour
15 x 22.5 in.
$3,000

 

ABANDONED WHARF AT DELAP'S COVE
(secondary title: NEW LIGHTHOUSE)
watercolour
15 x 22.5 in.
$3,000

  

TIDAL POOL ON LAVA FLOW ROCK, BAY OF FUNDY
watercolour
15 x 22.5 in.
SOLD

WHARF AT THE PASSAGE
watercolour
15 x 22.5 in.
$3,000

 

CLIFF EDGE, FUNDY TRAIL
(secondary title: STARTLED OSPREY)
watercolour
22.5 x 15 in.
SOLD

 

  

LITTLE BROOK
watercolour
22.5 x 15 in.
$3,000

THE VISITOR
acrylic on masonite
17 x 48 in.
framed dimension: 23 x 54 in.
$35,000

 

FOUR SPOONS
egg tempera
5.25 x 11 in.
framed dimension: 7.25 x 13 in.
$7,500

 

FOG ON THE BEACH
egg tempera
6.75 x 8 in.
framed dimension: 11 x 12.5 in.
$5,000

 

  

 

ISLAND AT THE HARBOUR MOUTH
egg tempera
5.5 x 8 in.
framed dimension: 7 x 10 in.
$4,500

SQUASH
egg tempera
11 x 5.25 in.
framed dimension: 13 x 7.25 in.
$7,500

 

FLOWERS ON A SHELF
watercolour
5 x 3.5 in.
framed dimension: 12.75 x 10.75 in.
SOLD

 

  

 

 

MIXED FLOWERS IN A VASE
watercolour
2.5 x 3.25 in.
framed dimension: 6.75 x 7.5 in.
$850

Tom Forrestall: Paintings, Drawings, Writings
TOM SMART
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia / Key Porter Books, 2008
$60

BLOWING LEAVES AND WOODPILE
egg tempera
12 x 24 in.
framed dimension: 15 x 26.75 in.
$10,000

THREE SPOONS, THREE FEATHERS
egg tempera
24 x 18 in.
framed
$15,000

 

 

 

 



THREE SPOONS, THREE FEATHERS (detail)
 

STARTLED WITNESSES, 2007
egg tempera
4.25 x 4.25 in.
framed
$3,000

 

APPLE BLOSSOMS AND THREE SPOONS
egg tempera
23.75 x 23.75 in.
framed
$24,000

 

FOUR SPOONS
egg tempera
24 x 18 in.
framed
$15,000

 

TWO CAKES
egg tempera
2.5 x 8.5 in.
framed as shown
$2,500

 

 

 

TULIPS
egg tempera
7 x 5 in.
framed
$4,000

 

  



BROOK OVER LAVA FLOW
egg tempera
6.5 x 7 in.
framed
$4,500




AIR FLOW METRE
egg tempera
5.5 x 6 in.
framed
$4,000

 

  

STONES AND SPOONS
egg tempera
7 x 7 in.
framed
$4,500

 

SPOON FOUND IN LEAVES
egg tempera
12 x 12 in.
framed
$10,000

 



THE ROAD NORTH
watercolour
14.5 x 19 in.
$2,700

  

BIG WHITE BIRCH DOWN
watercolour
15 x 22 in.
$3,000

EDGE OF THE WOODS
watercolour
14 x 19 in.
unframed
$2,700

  

PULLEYS IN A BARN
watercolour
14.5 x 19.5 in.
unframed
$2,700

 

 

Tom Forrestall was born in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia in 1936. He was raised in Middleton and Dartmouth. His interest in painting developed by age seven and shortly after he started attending art classes at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax.

In 1954 he obtained a scholarship to attend the Fine Arts Faculty at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. In 1958 he received, at graduation, one of the first Canada Council Grants for independent study and travel throughout Europe. Forrestall then married Natalie LeBlanc of Atholville and returned to Canada to work as Assistant Curator of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton. In 1960 a Forrestall painting was commissioned by the Province of New Brunswick and presented to H.R.H Princess Margaret on the occasion of Her marriage. In that year, he also realized his lifelong ambition as a professional self-employed artist and began experimentation with shaped panels for his art, for which he is now very well-known. Many important commissions and awards have since been bestowed on Forrestall.

Forrestall's principal media have been egg tempera and watercolour and since 1980, lithography printing. His work has been exhibited in private and public galleries both nationally and internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions. The retrospective exhibition of the artist's work entitled "Paintings, Drawings, Writings" organized by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is on display at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton until April 2009. The exhibition is accompanied by the publication "Tom Forrestall: Paintings, Drawings, Writings" written by Tom Smart, who also curated the retrospective exhibition. Forrestall's work is also reproduced in major histories of contemporary Canadian art. Tom Forrestall received the Order of Canada in 1986.