BILL TOMA

It may be said that one's environment can give eloquent testimony to one's interests. If this is so, Bill Toma's studio speaks clearly about his varied artistic interests. This visual representation starts with an oil painting of the late Bunker Hill's Victorian homes, whimsical motorized sculptures with as many as 200 cast parts, sensual nudes, fierce dragons in their original clay form that somehow survived the molding process, an aging clay torso of a Harlequin, the head of a grizzly bear used as a study, a robotics frog catching a robotics dragonfly, and scattered about the entire studio, a host of Disney characters.

Bill Toma's creations represent a vast and unique repertoire of his personal interests. Not limiting himself to one genre, Bill Toma pursues a variety of subject matter which includes a series of Wildlife, Nudes, Renaissance Harlequins and most recently, Fantasy Art. Bill Toma states, "My fascination with fantasy art results from the complete imaginative freedom it offers. It allows us to travel to realms beyond, to realms of an alternative reality where anything is possible, to realms that offer the substance of our dreams, to realms that fire the imagination." Consequently, when we view "Dragonslayer," we see a magnificently armored knight with shield, lance and sword setting out to slay the beast astride a gigantic armored snail, delightfully whimsical utterly fanciful and totally paradoxical, Bill Toma's work captures a flight of fancy, freezes the imagination's most soaring dream, and brings it to terra firma for our pleasure and admiration.

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