Tom is a signature member and past-president of the Ohio Watercolor Society and currently serves the OWS in various roles. Previously, he received a PhD from Stanford University and was a chemistry professor for 30 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he authored and published more than 60 research papers and two textbooks. Tom was named an Alfred P Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, 1985-87.
After retirement from the university in 2007, Tom moved to Ohio to pursue watercolor painting, a childhood passion instilled by watercolorist Charlotte Wilson in Havertown, PA and rekindled during the past 20 years in more than two-dozen workshops with prominent watercolorists.
In 2018, Tom received signature membership in the Whiskey Painters of America (WPA). He is also an associate member of the American Watercolor Society and a lifetime member of the Toledo Artists Club. He served as President of the TAC from 2009 through 2013. In 2023, Tom was awarded signature membership in the Watercolor USA Honor Society.
Recent Juried Exhibitions
2023
Watercolor USA 2023, Watercolor USA Honor Society Richard Clubb Memorial Award
American Watercolor Society, 2023 Associate Members Online Exhibition
2022
Ohio Watercolor Society, 45th Annual Juried Show
Toledo Federation of Art Societies, TFAS 100+5 Juried Regional Exhibition
2021
Ohio Watercolor Society, 44th Annual Juried Show
Green Mountain Watercolor Exhibition, 9th Annual Juried Show
Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, Aqueous Open 2021 Exhibition
2020
Ohio Watercolor Society, 43rd Annual Juried Show
Toledo Federation of Art Societies, TFAS100+3 Juried Members Exhibit
2019
Ohio Watercolor Society, 42nd Annual Juried Show
2018
American Watercolor Society, 151st International Exhibition, Watercolor Artist Magazine Award
Ohio Watercolor Society, 41st Annual Juried Show
Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, Aqueous Open 2018 Exhibition
Thomas Sorrell joined Fine Art America on January 18th, 2009.
