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Tom was born July 22, 1946, in Warren, Ohio the son of Albert and Rebecca Carto. He was a proud 1964 graduate of Warren G.I curated and staged his final exhibition and solo show in central London, Fields of Vision (2019), at the Velorose gallery. This he did without reducing the world around him to absurdity simplifying while avoiding the simplistic. Every scene, be it urban or rural, would be separated into its critical constituent elements, against a backdrop in his head of American minimalism. Yet, where his love for spinning a yarn and an enduring sense of play permeated the personal (often accompanied by a jazz soundtrack), his art was typically questioning and investigative. He was an intelligent, gregarious, witty and thoughtful person, in both his personal and professional spheres. Renowned Mansfield entrepreneur and local icon of the skiing community, David Lawrence Carto passed away following an extended illness on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021, surrounded by his loving and devoted family in his Mansfield home. In 2010 David and Jenny returned to the UK, living in Hoxne, Suffolk, where they worked in separate studios but exhibited together, with shows at the John Russell Gallery in Ipswich in 20.įor David, both the city and countryside were home – and this dichotomy permeated his art. They brought their sons up in the capital, before moving to Béziers, in the south of France, in 2000. He taught widely, including for more than a decade at Central St Martin’s, London (1985-97). David met Jenny Garrett at art school, and they married in 1964. ![]()
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