Tom Scheir

ABOUT ME
I was raised in Connecticut, graduated from Yale University and moved to California in 1980.  For more than 40 years I've made my home on the Westside of Los Angeles, in the Venice and Mar Vista areas.  I'm an artist- a painter - but like many artists I pursued other paths to earn a living.  I found my creativity to be useful in problem solving and creating systems and I held CFO and COO positions doing fundraising for non profits.  Since 2015 I've been studying shodo, Japanese calligraphy.  I enjoy the practice, it's difficult but the incremental improvements are satisfying when they come.  In addition to painting and shodo I spend one evening a week with a group of fellow artists doing figure drawing.