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 Tom started out on the Navaho Reservation in the little town of Ganado, Arizona. His family moved up to Anchorage, Alaska when he was 4 years old and Tom lived in Anchorage until he graduated from High School. In college Tom studied Mathematics, Environmental Geology and Geophysics. His Geophysics work led to doing research in Yellowstone Park and it was there, on his days off, that he built a small scribe-fit log cabin on land owned by his family in the Beartooth Mountains in Wyoming. As he was working on the cabin, especially the interior of the cabin, he realized that he was more interested in creating furniture than the study of Geophysics.
While living in the Beartooths, Tom met Jennifer Miller. They were married 3 years later and moved to Missoula, Montana, where Jennifer grew up. Tom began building furniture part-time in Missoula and after a few years became a full-time furniture maker.
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Jennifer and Tom have a daughter, Sarah, who was born in Missoula in 1995.
Tom builds gallery and commission pieces in Bellingham, and occasionally teaches woodworking. He's a member of Artwood, a woodworking cooperative gallery in Bellingham. Jennifer does marquetry, leaded/stained glass work and tiling, and the two of them collaborate on a number of pieces.
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