My Mother used to come and visit me from time to time when I was a kid. I was maybe six years old or so. One time she showed up with an old portable record player with a shitty needle that made every record I played sound like it had a five o’clock shadow in the grooves…

The discovery of his true heritage and the culture that it carries now informs all of his art and especially his painting. His exhibition at Hatch Gallery will feature his most heartfelt exploration of imagery that tells the story that he has only begun to uncover.

Author, musician and painter Tom Wilson is the 2021 City of Hamilton Arts Awards lifetime achievement honoree for his work over the years as an author, musician and painter. ... Wilson is also author of the bestselling memoir “Beautiful Scars.”

Tom Wilson is best known as a Juno Award-winning singer, songwriter, musician and performer. Starting as a folk singer in the late 1970s, Wilson has performed in numerous bands and as a solo act, and has written songs for others. Driven by a restless creative spirit and an unflagging commitment to artistic expression, since the mid-1990s he has painted his distinctive visual imagery on guitars, amplifiers, canvas, board, and other surfaces. As an accomplished musician, writer and painter, Wilson is remarkably fluent in a range of media.

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Tom Wilson's remarkable search for identity is all encompassing.

Since discovering six years ago, that his birth parents were Mohawk from the Kahnawake reserve in Quebec, that search has expressed itself in all forms of his art — music, writing and painting.