Tom Haugomat

"After the Bell" City Scene with Young Students in Acrylic Painting

2025

Born in Paris in 1985, Tom Haugomat quickly became interested in drawing and its narrative potential. After a year of studies in art history and archeology, he turned to a more artistic direction. During his time at Gobelins art school, studying “Design and production of animated films”, that he discovered a passion for the moving image. He met Bruno Mangyoku, with whom he creates the short film Jean-François (Arte, 2009). He hopes to continue to build a world in illustration and to make animated films by mixing painting techniques. His style is quite minimalist. It generally focuses on a detail and then lets the void play its role of highlighting. While using a range of colors blocked in careful sections, he manages to give depth to his drawing. His masses and overlays games, although worked digitally, almost intentionally invoke the technique of silkscreen, he greatly appreciates and even uses in his book Hors Pistes (2011).