Thomas Scoon

Thomas Scoon

Using cast glass and granite, New Hampshire sculptor Thomas

Scoon focuses exclusively on the human figure, abstracting it

while still emphasizing the essence of gender, gesture and

other human characteristics. The organic granite stones have

spectacular traces of quartz, mica and iron running

throughout them, and juxtaposed with the translucent glass,

result in works that balance the beauty of nature and explore

familial and generational relationships, both as a personal

narrative and universal construct.



Scoon has been an independent studio artist since 1991,

producing astounding sculptural works that focus on the

human figure. In pairing and grouping figures, he attempts to

explore familial and generational relationships, which he

hopes speaks to his audience as both personal narrative and

universal construct.

He begins his artistic process by selecting stones in natural

habitats, which he visits over a period of years to appreciate

the evolution of his natural materials. He attempts to gather

both the head and the torso stone from the same site for

consistency of color and texture. With the use of wax molds,

Scoon casts glass to fit the stones and the glass shapes the rest

of his figures in a very organic sense, much like ice. The

translucent quality of the glass is activated by natural sunlight

and in this way, Scoon says, the figures are given their spirit or

soul.