Keith Thomson

Utopia, Oil Painting

2025

Artist Comments
A family enjoys a cheerful picnic, radiating warmth, happiness, and connection. Vibrant hues, especially golden sunlight, and a bright blue sky, enhance the serenity. Their interactions—sharing food, laughing, and giving flowers—evoke an idyllic depiction of family life. Except...Artist Keith Thomson used oil paint and ink to create this piece.

About the Artist
Alabama-based artist Keith Thomson creates quick-witted, mixed-media artwork that blends realism and surrealism. His background as a political cartoonist in the 90s is reflected in the sharp storytelling his artwork achieves. He combines stylized realism and everyday subject matter with surreal details and ironic twists. He begins his work as digital sketches using animation software, then he transfers the sketch onto the canvas and begins applying oil paint. In addition to painting, he is a writer, of mostly spy novels and nonfiction articles. His writing prowess shines through in his witty descriptions of his pieces.

Words that describe this painting: family, outdoors, picnic, satire, nuclear power plant, parent, children, people, pop, oil painting, beige

Utopia
Keith Thomson
Oil painting on stretched canvas
Finished white edges
Varnished and Ready to hang
One-of-a-kind
Signed on front
2025
20 in. h x 30 in. w x 1.5 in. d
5 lbs. 0 oz.