Tom has been contributing paintings for covers, features, and My Outdoors humour illustration for OOD for more than 20 years. More recently Tom has come aboard as OOD's gun dogs columnist, where his long-held passion for dogs and hunting with them is evident. Tom is a keen observer of nature and, as such, is afield throughout the year. But, he admits a particular fondness for when he can run his dogs against a backdrop of autumn's full palette of colours.