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About the Artist
In 1925, at the age of 13, Tom emigrated from Italy to join his father in Australia. His
artistic nature first found expression through painting murals of orchards on the walls of his father's fruit
shop, and when he became an adult, he was apprenticed as a statue painter to the Mattei brothers. In 1935 he
started his own business manufacturing and restoring religious statues, which he continued until his
abilities were totally impaired by an illness in 2006.
Tom at work in 1960
A major restoration job
Still painting at 93 years old
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