If some artists are born and others made, Tom Glynn is undoubtedly one of the former. Growing up in West Sussex in the 1950s and 60s, he possessed a voraciousย aesthetic sensibility from the start. Not long after beginning at school, aged five,ย he spent the best part of a week constructing an elaborate tunneled structure in aย sandpit โ astonishing his teachers in the process. In subsequent years he fashionedย animals from plasticine, made assemblages from scavenged wood, sketched onย scraps of paper, and built miniature model theatres. As he grew older, Glynn becameย interested in earlier artists, establishing what he has called a โlifelong friendshipโย with the work of Picasso, Matisse, Arp and Brancusi. But his ambitions to becomeย a serious artist himself only crystallized at the age of fifteen, when he visited theย studio of the great post-war British sculptor, Robert Adams. Glynn even showedย the older artist some of his own creations, which Adams is said to have admired.ย
