Tom Allan MA ARBS PAI

Tom Allan (b.1946) is a Past President and Life Member of Paisley Art Institute.He was elected as a Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 2006 and is an elected Professional Member of Visual Arts Scotland.

Making sculptures since 1977, Tom Allan attended classes in sculpture and life drawing at Glasgow School of Art and trained with stone masons in Scotland and marble cutters in Carrara, Italy.

He works predominantly in stone and marble.

‘…Working in different types of stone has the fascination of exploring materials which are thousands or millions of years old, and making something new from them. Stone sculpture is the most ancient art form of all, and yet it still lends itself to innovation…’

Tom Allan

Commissions include:

Sculpture for Plane Castle, Stirlingshire (2003-5)
Life size statues in Carrara marble of Pope John Paul II, St Francis Xavier’s Church, Lanarkshire (2006)
St Peregrine, Carfin Pilgrimage Centre, Lanarkshire (2008);
Memorial to William Fyfe & Sons, Fairlie
Holocaust Memorial, Banja Bashta,Serbia (2008)
Sculpture Parks:
- Caol Ruadh, Argyll
- Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Romsey
- Chichester Cathedral
- Fresh Air, Quenington, Cirencester
- Newby Hall, Yorkshire
- Leicester University
- Elemental Sculpture Park,
- Cirencester
- Mythic Sculpture Garden, Dartmoor
- Mount Pleasant Sculpture Park, Cheshire