The Journey 2 Gallery

Nocturne, 1991 (charcoal) Available

La Notte 1, 1989 (oils) Private Collection

La Notte 2, 1989 (oil&pastels) Private Collection

Day Dreaming in Sun Passge, 1984 (pastels) Private Collection

The Traveller, 1989 (pastels) Private Collection

Slow Movement, 1984 (charcoal) Available

The Ups and the Downs, 1985 (pencil and graphite) Available

Leaving (Triptych), 1988 (pastels) Private Collection

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“ All art is some sense by and about human beings, but Shanti Thomas’s is one of those who works directly with the human image, human relationships, visible and invisible responses to events between human beings. She belongs to England and is at home here but her roots in Italy and India make her English roots different, she may be especially sensitive to feelings of transience, displacement. To represent people she has to find pictorial emblems for them, for the feelings she credits them with, for her own experience of them and the hopes and the fears for them and for herself. Her awareness of art of other times- her ‘museum in the head’, as Malraux named it- has contributed to this. See particularly Veronese’s tense scenes of human relationships and Hokusai’s prints of daily life around Mount Fuji.” Extract from Norbert Lynton’s essay on ‘Shanti Thomas at Gatwick Airport' - 1994

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