Exhibit: "West Desert Horizons" by Sean Toomey

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Time: February 6, 2010 at 4pm to March 26, 2010 at 7pm
Location: Salt Lake City Main Library Gallery
Street: 210 E. 400 South
City/Town: Salt Lake City
Website or Map: http://sites.google.com/site/…
Event Type: exhibit
Organized By: Sean Toomey
Latest Activity: Feb 4

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Reception: 4:00 - 5:30 p.m, Saturday Feb 6, 2010

Artist Sean Toomey sees 'world in watercolors'

By Scott Iwasaki
Deseret News

Former Utah Symphony|Opera marketing and communications director Sean Toomey's first artistic love is watercolors.

He had been painting since he was 12 while growing up in New Jersey.

"I used to paint along with a painter who was on PBS in the late 1960s," he said. "My folks encouraged me and got me in touch with a local New Jersey artist whom I worked with for a couple of years."

Watercolors, said Toomey, was the only visual art form that he has ever done.

"I never tried anything else," he said. "I tend to see the world in watercolors. So that's always what I've been drawn to."

Toomey said watercolor painting is challenging because they medium doesn't "allow you to just paint by numbers."

"You kind of have to go with the flow and stay ahead of the crazy things the watercolors do when they're on the paper."

While Toomey's works have been exhibited before in group shows, he will have his first solo watercolor exhibit at the Salt Lake Main Library from Feb. 6-March 26.

The artist grew up on the New Jersey shore and loved the way the sky and horizon made two distinct lines on the paper. When he moved to Utah in 1972, Toomey noticed the same visual dynamic. More...