“My work has always remained centred around the figure, this obsession has taken me in a lot of different directions from attending dissections at art school in New York to doing Butoh performance where as a figure painter I put myself out there, literally.” 

Thomas Anfield is a contemporary figure painter working in a variety of styles and motifs. Anfield primarily works in acrylic painting, but has also created work in Dance, Performance and Music. He has presented his work internationally in North America, Europe, Russia and Africa including the Vancouver Art Gallery, The National Gallery of Senegal, The Jardin Borda, Mexico and the Melkweg Amsterdam. He has co-created and presented three full performances in Moscow presented by the Moscow Ballet. His paintings have been featured in Modern Painters, Elle, Macleans, Vancouver Magazine and Preview Magazine. Thomas is a recipient of the Inter-Arts grant and the Canada Council Dance Grant. His work is in many collections including Canuck Place and the Vancouver General Hospital 

I create paintings of figures and toys  to explore ideas of our common humanity and shared identity and to connect to with that  most ancient part of ourselves. I am drawn to the figure  because it is  the site of our deepest self reflection. Through my work, I hope to remind people of our shared future existence   and to contribute to the idea of creating a more human focused society