Christopher Thomson Bio
"It was in the tumult of the sixties that compelled me to drop out of Swarthmore College and become an artist. I, perhaps naively, believed that if we were to survive as a species, we had to experience the wonder of life more deeply and that art could lead the way."
"I lived on communes and studied with master musicians, potters, and blacksmiths. I kayaked the rivers of the Southwest on multi-week solo meditations; walking up their deserted side canyons playing flute for entire days and nights until my mind stilled and music, nature, and myself were one."
"Over the last 35 years it has been my quest to forge steel with the same improvisational freedom I experienced in those canyons. Ironically it has required tje acquisition of large industrial power hammers, forges, and presses, and continuously using them until the flames and ground shaking forces could be employed mindlessly. In magic moments this lifetime of practice allows me to surrender to intuitions far truer that logic."
Christopher grew up tinkering in his father's basement workshop in Maryland, bicycling to the Potomac River, and kayaking passionately. He was lured to the West, learned blacksmithing, and created an artist blacksmith studio with his wife Susan in 1985 in Ribera, New Mexico. They design forged steel lighting, furniture, and sculpture and he kayaks the Western Rivers.
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