Toby Thomas

Forged steel vessels trace the stages of grief through memory, shaped by beach walks with my grandmother and bladderwrack seaweed revealed at low tide. 

Through repeated heat and hammering, texture and scale register time and change. Each vessel holds a stage of loss, becoming a quiet act of remembrance. 

Dissertation: A survey of bowls made by contemporary artists and Blacksmiths - Forged, metal bowls as functional, contemplative, luxury and ritual