"The art of Thomas McLauchlin is atonic for those who yearn for the days when paintings were romantic and recognizable and filled with good feeling. Those day were more than a century ago, when American painters raced to Paris to study the light-soaked images of the Impressionists".
"Mclauchlin is among those who have embraced this way of painting. His subjects are classic Impressionism - mother and child at water's edge, children at play. The Faces are barely shown, if at all, and usually are smoothly painted. Brushwork on the clothing is textured and almost as frothy as the sea churning nearby. He putting expression first and bumping description a few steps down on his priority list".