H. John Thompson

An artist who graduated from UArts, John Thompson, went on a journey talking about his work. He detailed how his studio is set up in the basement of his grandfather's bakery and how it is unintentionally set up in the same way that the back of the bakery is set up. Thompson just feels like such a handyman when he talks about what he did to achieve what he did, however when he talks about his work its is just an artists mind. He builds most of his "paintings", as he calls them, out of wood and gives everything a homey, old lake house feel. It probably helps, the fact that he was a carpenter before he went to graduate school. It just seems kind of mathematical all the things that he does, because even when he is making "drawings"or "sketches" as he calls his little miniature models and/or sculptures that are intended to be a window to what will be a larger project, everything is so planned out meticulously. He was pretty fascinating with what he was able to accomplish, like building a shed to house an old truck and then it became art and he set it up in the UArts gallery. Everything he was explaining was done so nonchalant, as if his feats were just something that happen to him and not something that really is hard to do and amazing. For that he was really interesting to watch talk about his experiences.