People, places, and stories: this rough classification is simply a handy way into the range of Theo Dombrowski’s work. All profits from the sales of all of them are donated to charity, mainly to Doctors without Borders (MSF). A fourth category of Past Paintings cuts across the other three and includes works given, sold, or directly donated for worthy fundraising.
Artwork
Places
Landscapes and townscapes, filtered by imagination and rendered with different media and techniques: Theo’s paintings of places vary considerably. He did many of his watercolour landscapes, for instance, deliberately to illustrate specific places in his beach and hiking guidebooks, but he veers with other paintings away from likeness into abstract. In addition to landscapes, he…
People
The category “People” in this website encompasses portraits, impressions, and interpretive and playful visions. Of the ones available here, a few are oil paintings but more are acrylics or watercolours. Historically, public interest in painting has broadly shifted from portraits to landscapes and possibly abstracts. However, in the past two or three years, Theo has…
Stories
Human beings are intuitive storytellers. If you present people with an enticing image of a place or an action, they’ll leap — before conscious thought — to interpretations, sequences, explanations. Some images, though, particularly invite narration either because they tap into traditional stories or…or the opposite…because they’re quirky or whimsical, stirring imaginative associations and often…
Past Paintings
Theo has said goodbye to all of the paintings shown on this page — given them, donated them to good causes for their fundraising, or sold them to donate the proceeds to charity. The collection in the gallery here is not a complete record — just a generous sample to give a fuller impression of…
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