I am Thom.
Thom spelled with an H due to an unwavering belief in doing everything the hard way. I have spent a lifetime crafting all manner of materials, using all manner of tools, into mostly usable shapes. I have spent my career crafting ideas into imagery and communicating complex concepts through highly condensed executions (Read: I made ads for 20 years).

My creative process has always been skeptical of ‘ideas’ simply formulated and produce in a linear manner. Maybe because I’m no good at that. My love is for the journey of process, and a faith that my long battered aesthetic sensibilities will shape the results to a satisfying conclusion. A Post-Modern maker with a Post-Structuralist brain, deconstructivist ambitions and unrequited minimalist dreams. I also have a well honed talent for turning even the humblest concept into pretentious wordy bullshit, that though cringe worthy, always makes me happy.

I found pottery while recovering from an injury that shook my world and forced me to reassess much of what I’d spent the previous decades doing. I have always been creative, but when I started working with clay, I discovered a joy in making and a satisfaction in creating physical objects that I had never experienced before.

My work gravitates towards the space between architecture, design and sculpture. I am drawn to the tension between geometry and organic form, between brutalist solidity and the irregularity of the human hand. Many of my pieces begin with simple formal ideas, but through making they evolve into something less certain and, I hope, more interesting. The result is a collection of vessels that are as much about curiosity, balance and discovery as they are about function.

I really hope you enjoy my work, whether purely aesthetically, or because you can sense some of the joy I experience in discovering these forms.