Thomas Kinkade

Thomas Kinkade - "Light Magician"¢â is one widely collected and beloved artists. The luminous light and tranquil mood of Thomas Kinkade's oil paintings are included in our lives through oil paintings history, prints, books, plus collectibles.

Thomas Kinkade thinks art has the power to touch others hearts and change their lives. Kinkade's artwork is an outgrowth of his deep faith in God, which he claims to be the foundation of his work. Thomas Kinkade lives in Northern California with his wife, Nanette, and their four daughters: Merrit, Chandler, Winsor and Everett.

He said he tried to make a world of tranquility, joy, and beauty in his oil paintings. Thomas Kinkade's oil paintings become visions of hope and comfort. His oil paintings bears great kinship to a group of 19th century American artists, the Luminists. As Thomas Kinkade puts it, "Like the Luminists, I strive for 3 visual characteristics in my artwork: soft edges, a warm palette, and an overall sense of light."

The light-infused quality in his work may account for Thomas Kinkade's enormous popularity as an multinational artist. Nearly every subject he paints to, whether cottage or countryside, small town America or bustling city, seems infused with a brilliant quality. He is an expert of capturing a moment on canvas and describing it by the warm light of memory.

Every Thomas Kinkade oil paintings gets reproduced in one or more forms, including hand signed lithographs, canvas prints, posters, calendars, magazine covers, cards and gift items. The following generated by this enormous exposure has brought six digit sums for Kinkade's original paintings and an long list of influential collectors, including many well-known leaders from politics & business sector.

Thomas Kinkade Biography - Know more about our Light Magician

Thomas Kinkade was born in 1958 and grew up in Sierra Mountains, Placerville, California.

• 4-year-old Thomas Kinkade: his calling as an painter was evident.
• 5-year-old Thomas Kinkade: his parents divorced. A kid living in a single-parent family was rare. He thought it was a time of shame and poverty. The only thing he had but other children didn't have, though, was his art potential. He told he was always the kid who could draw. He knew his talent and it was the only thing that gave him dignity in the his mindset because growing up, he was very impoverished.
• 16-year-old Thomas Kinkade: was an accomplished painter in oil under the apprenticeship of the well-known artist Glen Wessels.

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