tbmerritt, Creative Management + Professional Services

ABOUT ME Artist Bio: Thomas, a native Arkansan, published author, and award-winning artist has run his own Art Gallery, Architecture + Design Studios, and even worked as a production assistant for the ESPN X-games. He brings a broad scope of experience, empathy, and insight to every media he pursues. When people engage with his work, he likes them to feel that moment of shared emotion, experience, and authorship. He is a seeker, a traveler, a gatherer - a sharer of moments and perspectives. A former US Navy brat, traveling is in his blood. Thomas is a traveler, photographer, and writer. His process builds upon his past education and vocations working as a licensed architect, designer, documentarian, professional photographer, graphic artist. His work and experiences range from the rural to the metropolitan working from coast to coast and all destinations in between. He lived in a VW camper van from 2000-2003 bankrolling his nomadic lifestyle by taking odd jobs, selling photos, and art postcards from his travels finding himself in NYC and only two blocks away from the falling towers on September 11, 2001. Growing up in and calling Arkansas home, he returned in 2003 and has been focused on community-minded projects locally in Northwest Arkansas combining these endeavors with commissioned projects and driving expeditions navigating the highways and byways of the United States. Artist Statement: We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are. - Anaïs Nin I believe a “successful” work is one that expresses in an introspective way, something you see every day or something you’ve never noticed before and does so in a way that resonates emotionally with something deep inside us - humanity, religion, social climate or situation. Being bipolar I experience the “highs and lows” of emotion and reality. As a Libra, I see “both sides of the coin”. My name, Thomas, means “twin”. I seek balance in all things. Ordinary, if possible. Mediocre, if allowed.