Thomas Brigham is a Bay Area-based artist whose medium is found objects; mostly distressed wood, metal and fiber from remote Northern California beaches.  He specializes in assemblage and abstract wall sculptures using weathered material, the majority of which comes from boat wrecks and flotsam found in isolated areas of the Pacific coast.

As a self-taught artist, Thomas Brigham’s work falls under the category of “outsider art”, and is based on his background in finish carpentry and renovation of wooden sailboats and Victorian houses in San Francisco.  To find materials for his pieces, he searches stretches of the Northern California coast where parts of old boats and shipwrecks can be found.  The end result is pieces that display the patina of years in the elements of Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino and Humbolt Counties and evoke the rugged character of that part of the world.