Remembering the Brentwood Library Tree, by Tommy Thompson

Father-daughter artists' works featured
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A new collection of paintings in oil, pastel and watercolor, created by father-and-daughter artists Tommy Thompson and Michelle Rideout will be exhibited in the Brentwood Library during October.

The two enjoy painting together at various Middle Tennessee locations -- Radnor Lake, the historic Glen Leven estate, and other sites in Brentwood, Leiper’s Fork, and Nashville. As the daughter of an artist, Rideout came to painting quite naturally, after watching over her father’s shoulders as he produced many art projects.

'View Through Trees,' by Michelle Rideout

 Rideout has been drawing since she was a small child. Though her father remains her favorite teacher, as a professional she has studied with many artists, including watercolorist Carolyn Wright of Chattanooga; oil artist Jason Saunders of Nashville; pastelist Pat Thompson of Franklin; Colorado oil painter Jeanne Mackenzie, and portrait and landscape painter, Dawn Whitelaw among many others.

Rideout was honored to have an exhibition of her paintings at Belle Meade Plantation Art Gallery in Nashville in  2010.

She graduated with a B.S. degree in graphic design in 1989 from the University of North Alabama and belongs to the Chestnut Group, Nashville plein air painters for the land, and the Portrait Society of America.

Oil artist Tommy Thompson’s pastoral landscapes are a blend of realism and

impressionism and evoke a sense of peace.

In 2010 his work was juried into art exhibitions by Belmont University and Birmingham’s Energen Corporation. The artist’s paintings have been featured in American Art Collector, Southwest Art, Horses in Art, Hills and Hamlets, Greater Nashville House, Home, and Garden and other publications.  He has been invited to conduct solo exhibitions by art associations in Birmingham, Brentwood, Guntersville, Memphis, and Nashville.

Thompson has studied with nationally renowned artists, Kevin Macpherson, Ken Auster, Kenn Backhaus, Roger Dale Brown, Scott Christensen, Jeremy Doss, Daniel Greene, Ned Mueller, Michael Shane Neal, Jason Saunders, and Dawn Whitelaw. He is a member of the Oil Painters of America, Portrait Society of America, American Impressionist Society, Landscape Artists International, and Nashville’s Chestnut Group.

The library is located at 8109 Concord Road.