Description
Tom is a sculptor and designer who practices in the space between the fine and decorative arts. He combines ancient and contemporary materials and techniques to create work ranging from individual pieces for private clients, to bespoke installations for interior designers and architects.
I am continually inspired by the wealth of artisan skills and the possibilities found in the intelligence of the hand. I find a form of self-expression in the materials and forms of the past, to create work that inhabits the space between sculpture, architecture and design.
Over time my work has come to explore the ideas and materials of the medieval and renaissance world, often through the secondary lens of the nineteenth century Arts and Crafts movement, attempting to meld ancient elements with more temporal concerns of design and form.
In my work, translucent alabaster takes on the vaulted forms of gothic architecture, tarnished cast pewter resembles some freshly excavated relic, part grown, part sculpted. Marble is hand carved to the delicate translucency of porcelain, eroded by hand and acid to the weathered surface of an ancient sculpture.
In a world of digital perfection and production we should question what an artist can bring to a piece? Perhaps by leaving traces of the hand on a surface, intuitively revealing the layers hidden within a natural material.
