Cityscapes of the Mind Volume One

A book of pictorial art depicting imaginary cities in the forgotten past, distant future or in another world. The cities are garden cities, with wide boulevards, beautiful fountains, set in a virtual garden of Eden. Thomas Jewusiak has been a working professional painter his whole life. He worked his way through college by painting street scenes and architecturally interesting buildings and selling his work through private commissions. He has designed homes and presented them through his own architectural renderings in oil on canvas and pen and ink. His love of architecture has brought him to old historic towns, capturing their magic of place through his brush. He inhabits the places he paints always painting on location where possible (even if that location is the interior of his own imagination.) He now paints only in oil on linen canvas cloth, in what at first appears to be a highly representational or even meticulously detailed photorealistic style; but upon examination his work reveals itself as highly “impressionistic”, subjective, idealized and even fantastic, a streetscape of the mind- of a bridge unbuilt, demolished or obscured.