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TOM WILSON

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Introduction

In my youth, as an avid Hamilton music fan, I often found myself in Hess Village upstairs in the Gown and Gavel rocking to the music of Tom Wilson. Here I find myself, some MANY years later looking out my gallery window at the unmistakeable figure of Tom Wilson looking in at me and gesturing to some art in my window.

Tom and Tom, I guess we are, have a mutual love for both art and music. I am pleased to work with Tom to bring his art to my gallery and to art and music lovers everywhere.

His art that began as therapeutic pastime is now a growing gallery of coveted pieces that continue to increase in value as more and more people discover Tom’s art and the art finds its way into prestigious collections across North America. Our last art show, in 2024 SOLD OUT. A smashing success and rare occasion for any artist.

——-Tom Beckett

Courtesy: Marino Fotography

TOM WILSON BIOGRAPHY

TOM WILSON is the best selling author of the autobiography Beautiful Scars, his life journey including a revelation at 53, learning he was not only adopted, but Indigenous. Beautiful Scars, has been made into a documentary (watch below) and in 2024, made its world premiere on the stage as a musical of the same name., co-written by Wilson.

Tom is best known as a five-time Juno winning Canadian musician with multiple gold records. In 2025, he was awarded the Order of Canada and in 2024, he was bestowed an honorary doctorate of laws from McMaster University in Hamilton.

His work as a visual artist began as part of healing journey over two decades ago, and has found its way into many private and public collections.

Tom has written for and recorded songs with Sarah McLachlan, City and Colour, Jason Isbell, Colin James, Lucinda Williams, Billy Ray Cyrus, Matt Andersen, Mavis Staples and The Rankin Family to name a few.. His band Junkhouse scored eleven top-ten hits in the 90's , and his iconic, Americana-fuelled Blackie and the Rodeo Kings has performed on stages from The Grand Ol Opry to Massey Hall and was widely publicized for their presence on George Bush’s iPod.

  • Tom’s most recent incarnation, Lee Harvey Osmond, has received extensive praise and airplay throughout the United States and Europe.

    His art has shown in galleries in New York City, Vancouver, Toronto and more recently his paintings hang among esteemed Indigenous works from Norval Morrisseau and Christi Belcourt

    The author lives in Hamilton, Ontario and is currently working on his second book BLOOD MEMORY for Penguin Random House books.

    “I have unchained all the prisoners from my basement and freed the ghosts from my attic.I was the guy who ended up holding the keys to their freedom.It was me who let them out.It’s a job that no one else could do and one that comes with great consequence because these ghosts and prisoners are standing around me now all day, all night long.I told my truth the way I heard it and the way I remembered it and that’s all I have. Everything else is bullshit.” Tom Wilson

    “Wilson’s painting is among esteemed Indigenous works from Maxine Noel, Roy Henry Vickers, Christi Belcourt, Norval Morrisseau, to name a few of the many who are part of the Eagles Rising campaign through Artists Against Racism.”

    Note: Metal work for Tom’s painted sculptures are crafted by artist Mark Pflieger

AVAILABLE ARTWORKS

BLOOD MEMORY

Click on each piece of art for details

TOM WILSON ART BOOK AND LP’S AVAILABLE IN THE GALLERY

Large Scale: 69 x 120 inches

Colorful abstract mural of four stylized faces with large blue eyes, intricate patterns, and vibrant colours including red, green, blue, yellow, and black by Tom Wilson.
Two identical nuns with black and white habit and red crosses on their eyes, facing each other on a yellow background depicting residential schools by Tom Wilson.
Colourful Indigenous-style dot painting of two abstract fish with intricate patterns on a pink background filled with numerous multicoloured dots and lines by Tom Wilson
Colourful abstract painting of a figure with multiple faces and large, pointed ears or wings, set against a yellow background with black, white, and colored dots and lines by Indigenous artist and singer/songwriter, Tom Wilson.
Large colorful mural with abstract, psychedelic design featuring a stylized human face with one eye, flowing patterns, and vibrant colors including red, blue, yellow, green, and black, mounted on an urban building exterior.
An abstract painting featuring a stylized human torso with multiple eyes, colourful patterns, and vibrant elements against a starry night sky background. The artwork has dots, spiral patterns, and bold shapes creating a surreal, cosmic feel.

Tom Wilson’s “Prayer” honoured in a special mural on James St. North, Hamilton as part of 2025 Supercrawl. The original is available at Beckett Fine Art.

Abstract painting featuring a central eye with a blue iris, surrounded by colorful, flowing shapes and a vibrant orange background decorated with small dots, stars, and circular patterns.
Colorful abstract artwork featuring large eyes, intricate patterns, and vibrant geometric shapes in red, blue, yellow, green, black, and orange.
Abstract painting of a human figure with large eye face, surrounded by colorful patterns and stars, on a dark background.
Abstract Indigenous-style painting with intricate patterns and eye motifs on a dotted gold background.
Brightly colored abstract artwork with a symmetrical design resembling a face or mask, featuring large blue eyes, red and yellow accents, black outlines, and intricate dotted patterns on a red background.
Abstract artwork with large eye-like shapes in blue, red, brown, and orange, decorated with dots and patterns, set against a black background with colorful swirling dots and lines.
Abstract colorful painting featuring a central eye with vibrant patterns and surrounded by small swirling and dotted designs on a green background.
Two abstract African-style paintings of faces with blue eyes, red lips, and brown skin, featuring vibrant colors and intricate patterns, against a dark blue background filled with small colorful dots, stars, and spirals.
A colorful abstract painting in a Haitian style with a face featuring large blue eyes, red lips sticking out a blue tongue, and decorated with vibrant patterns and circles, surrounded by a vivid background with swirling designs.
Abstract painting with colorful swirling patterns, a large eye, and dotted background in black, blue, red, green, yellow, and white colors.
A colorful abstract painting with various patterns and shapes, including eyes, stars, and dots, arranged in a symmetrical design with red, green, blue, black, and yellow colors.
A colorful, abstract painting of two symmetrical faces with large eyes, surrounded by vibrant patterns and decorative designs, with a star and dotted background.
Colorful abstract painting of a woman's face with large blue eyes, red lips, and detailed patterns and dots in vibrant colors.
A colorful abstract painting featuring vibrant shapes and patterns, with black, orange, blue, yellow, pink, and white colors, surrounded by dotted and star-like details.
Abstract colorful painting with patterns, dots, and swirling shapes, featuring a prominent eye shape in the center surrounded by vibrant flames and decorative elements.
A colorful, abstract painting of a face with large eyes and exaggerated features, decorated with bright patterns and surrounded by a starry background.
A colorful abstract painting with a large face, featuring a big blue eye with a white sclera, a red tongue, and green and red lips. The face is surrounded by multicolored patterns, dots, and shapes resembling leaves, a beak, and various geometric ele
Abstract painting featuring vibrant colors and shapes, including red, blue, yellow, pink, and black, with dot patterns and swirling designs on a dark background.
A colorful abstract painting featuring a human face with a large blue and white eye, red lips, and vibrant patterns. To the left, there is a large red crescent shape with swirling designs, resembling a crescent moon, surrounded by a starry star-fille
Abstract painting of a face with large blue eyes, red lips, and a black nose, surrounded by vibrant colors and intricate patterns, including stars and spirals.
Abstract painting with vibrant colors and patterns, featuring large flame-like shapes in yellow, red, green, and orange, surrounded by a starry green background with pink spirals and dots.

EARLY WORKS: HAND-ETCHED

Abstract portrait of a face with large eyes, black nose, and lips, featuring colorful patterns and handwritten text in the background and around the face by Tom Wilson.
A colorful abstract art piece featuring a face with large blue eyes, swirls, and handwritten text covering the face and background by Tom Wilson.

S O L D

HAND-PAINTED METAL SCULPTURE

PAINTING: TOM WILSON

SCULPTURE: MARK PFLIEGER

Colorful abstract fish sculpture with vibrant patterns and dots, displayed on a green base. Hand=painted by Tom Wilson son a metal sculpture.
Colorful, decorative art piece of a turtle with a black background, vibrant patterns, and dots, displayed in a storefront window with reflections of cars and street outside.
Colorful abstract sculpture with a face and hand design, intricately decorated with dots and patterns, displayed indoors by Indigenous artist and singer/songwriter Tom Wilson.

NEW: Limited Edition hand-pulled original silk screen prints by Tom Wilson

An abstract black, white, and red silk-screen print by Tom Wilson featuring stylized human faces, leaves, a spaceship, moons, and various whimsical patterns and spirals.

PEACE MAKER

BLACK, RED AND WHITE: 35 signed and numbered limited edition prints available

MESSENGERS #1

BLACK AND WHITE: 15 signed and numbered limited edition prints available

Black and white abstract silk-screen print by Tom Wilson with a face featuring lips, eye, and decorative patterns including stars, swirls, a crescent moon, feathers, and various geometric shapes.

PEACE MAKER

BLACK and WHITE: 15 signed and numbered limited edition prints available

These are Tom’s first ever limited-edition silk screen prints

A rare opportunity for art and music enthusiasts

Hand-pulled silk screen prints are a special art form. The artist creates an original art work on layers of mylar. Individual silk screens are made for each colour. The screens are hand “pulled” by the artist onto acid-free rag paper multiple times to add layers of colour.

Once the screens are used in an edition or “run” , the screens are destroyed, thus these are limited editions that will never be offered again.

This is not a poster on paper or a reproduction of an existing piece - this is an original artwork.

in this case, for PEACE MAKER and MESSENGERS #1 , only 35 were made of the black, red and white version, and made 15 of the black and white versions.

Collectible, investment pieces. Each print is numbered (eg 3/45) and signed by Tom Wilson.

Custom framing is available.

EACH PRINT IS 24 in x 18 in wide

PRICING: $350.00 each

Available exclusively at BECKETT FINE ART

Abstract black and white patterned silk-screen artwork by Tom Wilson with circular and line elements, resembling stylized eyes or faces.
Abstract red, black and white crows "messengers" silk-screen print by Tom Wilson with swirling patterns, stars, and eye motifs.

MESSENGERS #1

BLACK, RED AND WHITE: 35 signed and numbered limited edition prints available

Person with long hair and sunglasses on head examining artwork on a table in an art studio.
A person with long curly hair and wearing a yellow shirt is drawing detailed black-and-white artwork on a large sheet of paper at a workspace in a studio, surrounded by art supplies and tools.
Person signing a silk screen print artwork at an art gallery during a signing event, with colorful abstract paintings hanging on the walls.
A person wearing a yellow jacket and various rings is working on a large, colorful piece of artwork with red, black, and white patterns featuring eye and face motifs.

Tom Wilson: Best Side Magazine May/June 2025

Magazine cover featuring Tom Wilson with long hair, a beard, sunglasses, and playing an acoustic guitar.
READ THE ARTICLE: PAGES 30 - 33
Magazine article featuring Tom Wilson, a Canadian rock star and storyteller. The right side shows Tom Wilson with long hair, sunglasses, a cowboy hat, beige jacket, sitting next to his golden retriever dog in front of a colorful indigenous art mural.
Two photographs, one of a band performing live and another of a person and a woman outside a gallery with a colorful painting in the background. The article discusses Tom Wilson's new solo art show.
Abstract painting featuring a stylized human face with large eyes and lips, a night sky filled with stars, a yellow-green moon, and various vibrant patterns and colours donated by Tom Wilson to Theatre Aquarius.

ART FOR THE ARTS

2025: Tom Wilson’s donation of two paintings to Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton

READ: Hamilton City Magazine

Tom Wilson standing with arms crossed inside a building with a colorful abstract painting of a face with one eye and a moon on the wall behind him at Theatre Aquarius.

Tom Wilson - samples of previously SOLD art

Tom Wilson's "We Will Not be Destroyed" depiction of the reality of residential schools with two nuns and the names of children who didn't come home etched into the art.

Will Not be Destroyed | Tom Wilson

2024/25: On display at the McMichael Gallery, Kleinburg, Ontario

McMichael gallery with Tom Wilson's We Will Not Be Destroyed on display in the lobby.
Sign describing Tom Wilson's artwork titled 'Will Not Be Destroyed', created in 2023, depicting two Indigenous figures confronting faceless nuns, highlighting Indigenous resilience and colonial history, written in English and French.
Three people standing in front of a reception desk with a Tom Wilson's "We Will Not be Destroyed" above them at the McMichael gallery.
Three people standing in front of a reception desk with a colorful abstract artwork above. The artwork features various faces and shapes in vivid colours at the McMichael Gallery.
Tom Beckett at the McMichael gallery with Tom Wilson's "We Will Not be Destroyed" painting of the horrors of residential schools.

Birth of Warriors: Diptych 48 x 72 in. (total) SOLD

Tom Wilsons "birth of warriors" depicting an embryo in the womb diptych
tom Wilson's "Brith of warriors" painting of a human in the womb with a single large eye, surrounded by radiant lines and a starry background, with vibrant dots and patterns throughout.
Colorful abstract painting with five figures resembling animals or mythical creatures, with elongated bodies, multiple eyes, and vibrant patterns against a starry night sky background.
Colorful, decorated guitar with abstract and face-like patterns, painted in black, red, blue, yellow, green, and white, displayed on a wall.
Artistic depiction of a face with large blue and white eyes, red patterned lips, and various handwritten texts and symbols on the face and surrounding areas, using bold colors and swirling designs.
Colorful, symmetrical abstract painting featuring two stylized faces with large eyes, wings, and crossed symbols on their chests, set against a vibrant blue, purple, green, red, and yellow background with star-like and swirl patterns.
Abstract painting featuring symmetrical patterns of eyes, butterflies, and geometric shapes in vibrant colors of red, yellow, blue, green, and black.
Decorative paddle with colorful abstract art depicting a woman and swirling patterns.
Decorative paddle with a painted abstract face design in vibrant colors.
Painted tribal-style face on a wooden paddle, with a purple background adorned with colorful dots, circles, and stars, and the word 'LOLA' at the bottom.
Abstract painting featuring a large eye with a yellow eyelid and a blue iris, surrounded by colorful geometric and dot patterns in black, red, yellow, green, and blue, with star-like and circular motifs.
Colorful guitar-shaped art piece with abstract face design painted with various bright colors, dots, and patterns.
Colorful Aboriginal-style artwork on a wooden paddle, featuring a large eye, surrounded by abstract shapes and patterns.
Colorful African-style painted wooden paddle with abstract face and floral patterns, featuring a prominent eye, dotted lines, and bright colors like yellow, blue, red, black, green, and brown.
Painted wooden oar with Aboriginal-style dot painting design featuring black, blue, red, green, and white dots, concentric circles, and geometric patterns.
Two intricately painted wooden paddle-like objects with colorful designs, including fish and abstract patterns, mounted on a white wall.
A vibrantly colorful, decorated surfboard with peacock-inspired design and abstract patterns, including geometric shapes, dots, and lines in red, orange, green, blue, black, and white.
Abstract painting featuring stylized eyes, wings, and plant motifs in vibrant colors with dotted and spiral details.
A colorful, abstract artwork featuring a large black footprint with a red cross inside it, a church with a red cross on top and a house with blue windows, and a pattern of stars, spirals, and text in various bright colors.
Colorful abstract artwork resembling a face with prominent eyes, surrounded by vibrant patterns and shapes, including a sun with rays, in a cosmic or psychedelic style.
An abstract painting of a face using bright colors and dotted patterns, with prominent lips, eye, and nose, set against a colorful background with geometric shapes.
Abstract artwork depicting a stylized human face with prominent red lips, black eye patch, and a blue eye. The face is surrounded by colorful patterns, including red, yellow, green, blue, and black elements, with various dots, spirals, and geometric
Abstract artwork featuring large, pointed shapes with eye-like graphics, colorful patterns, and cosmic background filled with dots, spirals, and star-like elements in vivid reds, blues, greens, yellow, and black.
Colourful indiginous-style painting of a fish with intricate geometric patterns and dots on a beige wall.
Colorful, stylized fish made of painted cutouts with intricate dot designs and vibrant colors, mounted on a wall.
A colorful abstract painting featuring a large face with a yellow moon on the forehead, a prominent eye, a nose, and red lips. The background is divided into sections with handwritten text and various patterns in blue, orange, green, and black.
Decorative pyramid-shaped artwork with vibrant, intricate patterns including an eye motif on a black background, colorful dots, and abstract designs.
Colorful abstract painting of a butterfly with symmetrical patterns, large blue eyes, and bright colors including orange, red, green, blue, and black, surrounded by star-like and swirl motifs.
A colorful, abstract painting featuring a central figure with big blue eyes, a prominent nose, and a crown-like headdress with yellow spikes. The background is filled with small multicolored stars and spirals on a dark blue backdrop.
A colorful abstract artwork featuring a large eye, a moon, and a bird with detailed patterns and vibrant colors.
A colorful abstract painting featuring a face with large blue eyes, red lips, and various patterned sections, with a crescent moon and starry sky in the background.
Colorful, Aboriginal style painting of two fish set against a starry, dotted background with connecting circular motifs.
Abstract artwork featuring colorful, elongated leaf shapes with intricate patterns, set against a dark blue background filled with white, red, green, and blue dots and swirls.
A colorful abstract painting depicting a person with a large head, blue eyes, and green hair. The person is holding a large, patterned, brown and orange fish or bird against a vibrant background of swirling stars and dots. The lower part of the paint
A colorful abstract painting of two faces with large green eyes and red lips, divided by a vertical blue line with a yellow crescent moon in the middle. The faces are filled with handwritten text and spiral patterns in orange, yellow, and blue, set i
Abstract artwork featuring a symmetrical design with two large blue and white eyes, surrounded by colorful patterns, stars, and moon shapes on a dark blue background.
Abstract painting with two large eye-like shapes at the bottom, surrounded by colorful, flowing patterns and stars on a black background. A central vertical chain of black circles with red centers connects to a constellation of smaller stars and spir
Colorful abstract artwork featuring two large stylized faces with prominent faces and eyes, surrounded by intricate patterns and dots, with rainbow colors and the word 'art' written at the bottom.
Colorful abstract artwork depicting a large lion's face with eyes, surrounded by various shapes and patterns, including draped banners and star motifs, in bright colors like red, yellow, blue, green, and black.
A colorful abstract painting of a face with large black eyes, yellow and red lips, and a red forehead, with intricate patterns and text in the background.
Abstract painting with vibrant colors and dot patterns, featuring five eye-shaped figures with blue centers and varied colored outlines, set against a detailed starry background with swirling patterns and organic shapes.
Colorful abstract painting of two symmetrical human faces with blue eyes, decorated with vibrant patterns and geometric shapes, set against a starry dark blue background.
Colorful, abstract painted guitar wall art with eyes, dots, and geometric patterns.
Colorful illuminated crescent-shaped art installation against a black background.
An abstract artwork depicting a figure with a red cross on the face, a large house with a cross on top, a boat with a colorful face, and a starry night sky with a crescent moon.
Colorful abstract painting featuring swirling patterns, various shapes, and dotted lines on a dark background with red, blue, yellow, orange, white, and pink accents.

Gord Downie: raising social consciousness about the tragedy of residential schools

(extract from the 2024 Tragically Hip documentary)

WATCH: BEAUTIFUL SCARS | A TVO ORIGINAL

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