Featured artist - September 2022

Tom Abbiss Smith

Tom Abbiss Smith

Tom Abbiss Smith is an award-winning contemporary designer represented. He currently lives and works in Norwich, United Kingdom, with his partner and his cat; Lemon. Through both contemporary and traditional techniques such as digital collage, drawing, and painting, Tom explores shape and form to produce intuitive abstract designs and illustrations that are frequently applied as surface pattern design to clothing, homeware products, packaging, posters, and accessories. Tom has also recently started to explore the possibilities of his art three-dimensionally on objects such as ceramics and sculptures.

If you could have dinner with a famous person (dead or alive) who would it be?

Dick & Dom from Dick and Dom in da Bungalow!

Which book are you reading right now?

I just finished 'Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold' and I'm just about to start 'Otherlands: A World in the Making'

If you could be an animal, which one would you be and why?

Frog! I'm not sure why but it just sounds fun haha

Name one thing on your bucket list?

Go metal detecting and find some ancient treasure!

If you could have a superpower which one would it be?

Teleportation

Favorite art supply/tool?

Indian Ink and a nice fat brush!

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