V. T. Hamlin

Tom Dunne was born in Queens, New York and spent the first four decades of his life on the North Shore of Long Island. He attended Pratt University and studied traditional drawing and oil painting with Harold Stevenson (one of a handful of Norman Rockwell’s students) and Alma Galanos. Besides working with Colorano First Day Covers since the mid-seventies, he has had a career in advertising and editorial design illustration, clients including CBS, Sony, IBM, Time, American Scientist, and Muse magazines. Tom has lived in the Durham, North Carolina area since the early nineties, where he continues his work as a freelance illustrator as well as teaching and selling his fine art.