Car art may not be up there with the stuff that is exhibited in the Louvre if you are looking for what most people might define as “classic”. In fact, it is something of a minority movement – or, to be more accurate, a niche movement. This, however, does not prevent some works of car art from exhibiting a true talent and class that makes one sit up and take notice. Car art will, by its very nature, appeal to people who love cars. This is self-explanatory and self-evident. Then again, automotive art is not limited to the car -–artists like Tom Fritz are just as comfortable painting motorbikes as their four-wheeled counterparts.

There is a certain relaxed class and glamor to the work of Tom Fritz. Always keen to depict something classic and beautiful in a way which will be memorable yet, seemingly, somehow effortless, Fritz dips back into his childhood during a period when classic cars were in their pomp and the motorcycle was a bastion of counter-culture mischief. For anyone with an artistic soul and mind, the memories of our childhood will always be a kind of muse when it comes to creating art the way we like to see it.

Tom Fritz has been commissioned by no less than Harley Davidson to create specific, relevant works of art including a piece for their 100th Anniversary in 2001. A job that any motorbike fan would be proud to get, no doubt, but one that Tom certainly earned through his past work.