A tapestry to brighten every home.
(From the Wiki)
(born January 19, 1958 in Sacramento, California) is an American painter of realistic, bucolic, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products via The Thomas Kinkade Company. He characterizes himself as "Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light" (a trademarked phrase), and as "America's most-collected living artist". Media Arts, the publicly-traded company that licenses and sells Kinkade's products, claims that 1 in 20 homes in the U.S. feature some form of Thomas Kinkade’s art.Kinkade has received criticism for the extent to which he has commercialized his art—for example, selling his prints on the QVC home shopping network. Others have written that his paintings are merely kitsch, without substance, and have described them as chocolate box art.
( I agree - but what's wrong with that? It's art, people enjoy it, where's the problem?) Incidentally, all painters are painters of light, reflected light. My old art teacher used to say that when I was in the Art 6th at Surbiton County Grammar School, lo these many moons ago. You aren't painting the object, you're painting the light reflecting from it because that is what you see. His name was Joe Turner (no, really), so I guess his career was mapped out for him...