Roy Thomas

Minor paint loss on right canvas edge with further minor abrasions along left and right edges. Good overall condition. As viewed.
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'Roy Thomas is an artist who can be said to belong to the school of 'virtual reality' that has developed largely among young Kerala artists today.  This is not escapist art that creates a dream world or throws unrelated formal elements onto the canvas to tell a story divorced from the visual images it is made up of. But rather, it heightens reality we may never see but which exists below the bedrock of our visible world, now divided into the seen and unseen, the celebrated and the ignored.  This art looks round the corner of economic miracles and polite society to find elements we did not expect existed.' (Suneet Chopra, Projected Memories...Fading Realities, New Delhi, 2006).