Tom Hilborn Celebration of Life

Born and raised in London, Tom Hilborn began his artistic journey as a young child when he began drawing crazy, comical caricatures. After studying at Beal Art under Bert Kloezeman, he spent his entire adult life painting – mostly on hardboards, often using modelling paste to add texture and depth.

Tom's subject matter ranged from landscapes of his beloved Gibbons Park to obscure musicians from the earliest days of jazz and rockabilly to renderings of figure studies and sketches by the great artists of the Renaissance. Often more than one of these elements appeared together in a single work.

An incredibly prolific artist who worked out of both London and Dundas, Ont., Tom was also a much-loved member of London's music scene as a guitarist for Lax Apparition, the Black Holes and Osterborg.

When he died in July at the age of 67, he left behind an extraordinary legacy of completed art. His family has authorized a sale of approximately 80 Hilborn paintings, including a dozen measuring about four feet by four feet. All paintings will be priced reasonably, with the goal of ensuring that they find new homes and will be displayed on walls rather than kept in storage.