Tom Costantini

I love the neighborhood environs here in West Seattle, and value the relationships I’ve built with neighbors, merchants and other local artists. I’m over-the-moon happy to be one of the inaugural artists in Fogue West Gallery!

I’ve always been fascinated by cars and buildings, both as objects of design and as vessels for our collective history and memories. My paintings attempt to capture their souls and tell stories of the places they’ve held in our lives.  

I approach them with a playful sense of humor, and always strive to offset the subjects with compelling patterns and backgrounds.  I think my years of architectural drafting find an echo in the detailed linework and graphic lettering in the paintings.

Recently I’ve been experimenting in a more three-dimensional direction by doing shadowboxes combining paintings with vintage toys and other recycled objects.