Tom Cross
The work of Tom Cross is largely based on landscapes and during his life he travelled widely in search of source material. His first visit to the Middle East was in 1996. He subsequently made a number of visits to Dubai at the invitation of the Majlis Gallery, painting the architecture, the old Arab houses with their Wind Towers, the Mosques, the vast desert landscape and the Hajar Mountains of Dubai and Oman. He became fascinated with the ferocious nature of the mountains and the desert landscapes with their colour and spectacle. In the modern cities he found inspiration on the architecture old and new.