Thomas R. O’Neal is an American artist living in the United Kingdom. He first refined the craft of image making through hand-drawing and watercolor rendering, in the studio and plein air, during his rigorous architectural training. It was during this training that he discovered the possibilities of photography as another means to make impressions of the world around him. This was apparent inside the glossy architectural books and magazines that were his de facto teachers. Architectural practice, in the years that followed, dominated his life as he laboured to shape the built environment, and the camera took a back seat. He recently rediscovered his passion for photography and is once again in pursuit of seeing the world around him in a new way.

In this new way, O’Neal is not interested in mirroring nature or the world we’ve built. He looks to create prints of what they leave with him. Interpretations that give new meaning. He remains open to the influence of the master photographers that have come before him, namely: Alvarez Bravo, Kertesz, Haas and Kenna. However, as all artists do, he transforms this influence in the manner of his own inquisitive and amused outlook upon the world.