Farmboy Fine Arts

We’re a full-service international art advisory with a simple purpose and reason for being: to change lives with art.

We have over 20 years of holistic advisory experience collaborating with interior designers, architects, ownership groups, and Fortune 100 companies from around the world. With our well-established and methodical process, we know what it takes to bring ambitious concepts to life through brand discovery, collection building, artist coordination and relationship management, art investment advising, procurement, and installation. Consider us your spatial activist partners. We can’t wait to work together with you.

 

One of the first questions we get asked by new clients and partners is, "So why’s the company called Farmboy?” To answer that, we have to go back nearly two decades to rural Alberta.

In the mid-90s, Farmboy’s founder and CEO Todd Towers was a young art student enrolled in the University of Calgary’s Fine Art program. But that wasn’t Todd’s only focus. He was also a farmhand on his family’s ranch.

For six generations, the Towers family had worked the land and Todd was no exception. When not in classes, the studio, or working typical university odd jobs, Todd worked the land and cattle. So, as an art student moonlighting as a farmhand, Todd quickly earned the nickname Farmboy.

“The Farmboy nickname captured nicely the essence of who I was and how I viewed art at the time,” remembers Todd. “The farmer, the land, the livestock and the community all rely on each other. It’s a collaboration driven by passion, energy and dedication—everyone working together to grow something and make the world a little better. It felt natural to embrace that ideal and it encapsulated the potential I saw in art—the potential to make the world better and change lives.” Once Todd graduated and founded his fledgling start-up art consultancy, his agrarian roots continued to shape his approach.

And now, for over 20 years, those lessons learned on the farm have been the foundation of Farmboy. Clients, artists and Farmhands alike are continually excited by this idea of collaboration and using art to activate spaces and make the world a little better. That excitement fosters passion and when there is passion and dedication, art is given the opportunity to change people’s lives.