Thomas Kinkade My Love

By Peace | November 6, 2006

Today I blog about Thomas Kinkade. He is really a great artist. I am so captivated and inspired by his painting. I have never seen his real work before. But all that I have seen are ‘virtual’. But that alone is enough. I cannot afford to buy them also. But I would like to have my ‘virtual’ Thomas Kinkade cottages collection. I admired his work, so much so that I have put up all his link in I am Peace, so that I can always go back to look at his work.

I come across one of his sculpture, the Prince of Peace. I think that is a wonderful work. I even more respect him when he sound so humble when he said his work was the result of his faith in God. He was so family oriented, and loving to his wife. He is a great man.

I love cottages and I have posted his collection at Peace Home. But I love the painting so much that I must look at them so many time and ‘possess’ them. So I have the same image as Peace Home again here. I really feel ‘good’ and feel ‘great’ by looking at them.

Kinkade is America’s most collected living artist, a painter-communicator whose tranquil, light-infused paintings bring hope and joy to millions each year. Each painting that Thomas Kinkade creates is a quiet messenger in the home, affirming the basic values of family, faith in God, and the luminous beauty of nature.

Thomas Kinkade, the celebrated “Painter of Light” is one of the most widely collected and beloved artists of our day. Each year millions of people are drawn to the luminous light and tranquil mood of Kinkade’s paintings and include his creations in their lives through prints, books, and other fine collectibles. An inspired idealist, Thomas Kinkade believes art has the power to touch people’s hearts and change their lives.

Kinkade’s artwork is an outgrowth of his deep faith in God, which he believes to be the foundation of his work. A devoted husband and father, Thomas Kinkade lives in Northern California with his wife, Nanette, and their four daughters: Merrit, Chandler, Winsor and Everett. “In my paintings I try to create worlds of tranquility, joy, and beauty”.

Thomas Kinkade’s paintings have become visions of hope and comfort, a welcome haven from the pressures of modern life. His complex technique bears great kinship to a little known group of nineteenth century American painters known as the Luminists. As Kinkade puts it, “Like the Luminists, I strive for three visual aspects in my work: soft edges, a warm palette, and an overall sense of light“. The light-infused quality in his work may account for

Thomas Kinkade’s enormous popularity as an internationally published artist. Virtually every subject he puts his hand to, whether cottage or countryside, small town America or bustling city, seems infused with a radiant quality. He is capable of capturing a special moment on canvas and rendering it timeless by the warm light of nostalgic memory.

Thomas Kinkade is a devout Christian and credits the Lord for both the ability and the inspiration to create his paintings. His goal as an artist is to touch people of all faiths, to bring peace and joy into their lives through the images he creates. The letters he receives every day testify to the fact that he is achieving this goal. A devoted husband and doting father to their four little girls, Thomas Kinkade hides the letter “N” in his paintings to pay tribute to his wife, Nanette. The girls also find their names in many of his paintings.

Everything Kinkade paints gets reproduced in one or more forms, including hand signed lithographs, canvas prints, books, posters, calendars, magazine covers, cards, collector plates, figurines, and gift items. Perhaps no American artist since Norman Rockwell has received such broad exposure and popular acceptance.

Thomas Kinkade grew up in Northern California in the small town of Placerville. Though the family did not have wealth, Kinkade often says they were “rich in the greatest form of wealth; a nurturing and affirming love”. His first “collector” was his mother, who would frame his childhood drawings and use them to decorate the family home.

Thomas Kinkade is renowned for infusing light into his paintings, creating romantic and tranquil scenes. Known as “the Painter of Light,” Kinkade has an almost uncanny ability to recreate dramatic effects of pictorial lighting in a way that makes the image seem to glow from within. This famous “Kinkade glow” might help explain Kinkade’s popularity as a published artist. The creations of Thomas Kinkade have become a phenomenon unprecedented in recent times, with countless millions of “Kinkade Collectors” worldwide.

Thomas Kinkade has received numerous awards for his works, including the 1995 Lithograph of the Year Award and 1995 Artist of the Year from the National Association of Limited Edition Dealers (NALED) and the 1994 Collector Editions Award of Excellence. NALED has named him as Graphic Artist of the Year six times and his works have been named Graphic Art Print of the Year eight times. Kinkade has also won the Collectors Editions Award of Excellence and was a charter inductee to the Bradford Exchange’s Plate Artist Hall of Fame.

Thomas Kinkade was honored, along with idol Norman Rockwell, as a charter inductee into The Bradford Internation Hall of Fame for plate artists. He is regularly featured in well-known magazines and as a guest on popular TV network shows and radio talk shows throughout the country. Further, his paintings have been the subject of two major art books, Thomas Kinkade: Painter of Light (Lightpost Publishing 1993) and Thomas Kinkade: Paintings of Radiant Light (Abbeville Press 1995). Another book, Simpler Times, shares the artist’s inspiring philosophy of a life based on family, home and faith in God. This philosophy undergirds all of Kinkade’s art.