Tom Everhart's Hide and Seek collection of paintings
Debute of Tom Everhart's Hide and Seek Collection at Hamilton Sellway Gallery, West Hollywood, CA.

At the top of 2024, Tom Everhart debuted a very special collection of new works to a celebrity-packed West Hollywood gallery. After thirty-five years of devoting his art career to Schulz's subject matter, Tom took a brief, yet very important hiatus to focus on a body of work featuring his landscapes inspired by the views from his Tahitian studio.

Three of the featured works in the collection were debuted as limited edition prints. And were immediately a success. Now these same works are available for collecting through Tom Everhart's official galleries.


Prom Queen

Papepr Doll

Peacock

HIDE AND SEEK
NEW DOGGONE IT PAINTINGS FROM TAHITI

Hide-and-seek, a very familiar game to most children, is a way of life for many living beings in hot, humid-dripping Tahiti. Under the water's surface, the game is alive and very active, as fish are constantly hiding behind groups of coral to survive the other larger fish. Often, they even camouflage their selves with light, as they angle their metallic bodies towards the sun, so as to confuse the hungry seeking birds above the surface of the water, creating a new way of seeing. The octopus below my overwater studio, not only transform color to camouflage, but can redesign their bodies to look like two giant eyes. Even exquisite white parrots hide amongst the reflective sun-soaked white palm fronds to foil the south pacific seahawks.

This body of work's immediate visual content, from the deck of my Tahiti studio, is a perfectly distracting metaphor for the actual subject matter of "Hide and Seek". The real game is the one that we are forced to play when someone’s intellectual honesty (their true self) has been hidden in order to seek out a new less authentic image for personal gain, safety, or just narcissistically to make one feel better about themselves.

Hopefully, the Hide and Seek - New Doggone It Paintings From Tahiti will offer the viewer another way of seeing the games we are sometimes made to play.

Finally, for the viewer, who is familiar with my 35 year body of work, influenced by the drawing constructions of Charles M Schulz, a natural game of hide-and-seek may unfold, courtesy of the absence of the recognizable expected Schulz imagery.

-Tom Everhart