The special art of Tom Havlasek

Tom Havlasek was born in Brno, Czech Republic in January 1984. Since his childhood, he has enjoyed motorsport and has been in close contact with it. He lives very close to the well-known Brno Circuit.

"As a child I was there with my father nearly every free weekend, loved the atmosphere of motorsport car races and of course I´m still in love with it," Tom said.

Tom graduated from a secondary school with specialization in computer graphic design. But already during his studies, he prefered hand craft more and more. At that time, he started to present his works of art. It was mostly street art paintings or legal graffiti paintings, painted by spray colors. But as the time went, he started to grow fond of using canvas and waterbased colors because he was simply looking for something more than only street paintings.

In recent years he has only painted with acrylic colors, almost without use of brushes and his favourite canvas size is 95 x 95 cm. His philosophy is quite clear. Find an interesting photo of some classic racing sports car, or the best way is to take a photo of it on his own. Then choose the best part of the photo and create the right composition on a computer. And then transfer the motive on the canvas. He usually paints dirty and not much clear style.

He likes splashes, drops and blurs everywhere. No clear shades (shadows). It could be said that he tries to connect abstract and concrete together. But the topic must always be clear and it must immediately be recognizable what´s going on.

Portraits are his favourite theme as well. Of course especially portraits of racing drivers from the "golden age" of motorsport. Since 2014, he is a full time artist. Paintings, poster design, logo design etc. have become his full time job.

He exhibited some of his first canvases many years ago, which was closely knitted with the age of street-art. Last year he exhibited on Classic Show 2013, same like this spring on Classic Show 2014 in Wannieck Gallery Brno.

Tom exhibited one of his famous paintings in L´Atelier gallery in Monaco during Historic Monaco Grand Prix. He had his own exhibition at the Le Mans Legend Cafe in June during the Le Mans 24 hours and Le Mans Classic month.

He will attend this year some of the famous European classic car meetings like Spa Classic, Silverstone Classic, Le Mans, Monaco, etc.

Tom is also available for commission work and can be contacted here: