Tom Stogdon is an artist born into a fourth generation of greengrocers in Bloomsbury in 1964. He withdrew from the fruit trade in 1998 and has never looked back. - ‘I often wonder how would life have been if I had gone on to art school instead of the market but always arrive back at the same conclusion...….. who really knows. What I do know ‘is that I feel very lucky to be doing what I love every day of my life.’
Since his last solo show with Crane Kalman he has moved on with his practice; not wanting to change for the sake of change but developing and evolving the range of materials and the way in which he uses them for his constructions. - ‘In my daily practice as an artist, I am striving to create my own individual language with the way I use material and, in particular, stones. You will notice colour creeping and sometimes crashing through my current work. I still like to search for found material which can become a component part or a catalyst to
the next piece. I have been lucky enough to work with a fantastic fabricator and friend for
a number of years & recently discovered a foundry in Birmingham where I have found
casting in bronze, and the intricate and varied patination process to be really inspiring. Often, for me, this bronze form I have originally built in plaster or clay is then the starting point, a framework if you like not dissimilar to the fabrication process, as I continue introducing further elements like stone, wood and other materials.’
Tom was elected as a member to the Royal Sculpture Society in 2012. His studios are now very rural and just outside Oxford.