GLENN THOMAS is a painter, sculptor, and print maker, who studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He has been living in the Netherlands since 1970 and has shown his work in exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States. He has also done two projects together with the writer Paul Auster. In an artist statement he says: “Making art seems to be a reaction to my being in this temporary human visit we all experience. It began with the impulse to make things, chairs, tables, even a small boat. I ran out of functional objects to make and, at my brother’s suggestion, began to paint and make art. I was free of the functional objects and, unknown to me at the time, began an inner journey with endless possibilities. This practice continues to this very day. There is a never-ending joy in the process of making something that has never existed, that collaborates with me in its development. Primal fears, complex relationships, eternal questions, disappear. The often violent events that take place on the planet, and a society that seems to accept being born, growing up, and dying as something logical has always puzzled me and I have done my best to try and avoid getting too involved. The proverbial space between art and life seems to be disappearing as I approach the end of my visit. Where the forms, images, colors, come from I have no idea… As luck would have it, I am not alone in this occupation and can derive great comfort in perusing the history of art, which inspires and eases any loneliness.” Learn more at www.glennthomas.eu.