About The Artist
Thomas St Thomas includes the process of life within every aspect of his work. Whether painting, landscaping, designing homes, furniture or fixtures, writing, travelling, surfing, motorcycling or creating cannabis infused beverages; the collective conscious is his playground.
Growing up in Southern California in the 1970's, he was a professional skateboarder and surfer in his youth, where a strong allegiance of subculture was born. One of ten children in his home, he was given his first painting studio at 16 by Arthur Ruddy, (a lighting engineer and architect for the 1940 New York World's Fair).
Throughout his life Thomas has nurtured a love of surrounding and nature that reveals itself in the beach-culture landscapes prevalent in his work; ocean horizons, sunsets, birds and heart trees compliment the easily curated self portraits amidst dreamlike tapestries of colored works on paper and canvases. One can also immediately interpret his affection for Pop Art and cynicism in the candy colored glass sculptures that re-emphasize the playfulness, if not impish workings of a clever mind. These latest works are a reminiscence of the joys of "California dreaming" at a time when both surfing and skateboarding were considered a reckless, illegal nuisance; they celebrate society's reclamation of an entire generation's local culture that has now become a global, Olympic sport.
