Tyler Thomas is based in Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He attends Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, graduating in 2025. Growing up in Virginia was a massive source of inspiration, and Tyler spent much of his youth following creeks to their source, and climbing the tallest trees he could find with his best friends, while also recreating every scene from Lord of The Rings with cool sticks for swords and dead trees as orcs. Always inspired by fantasy, yet he was fascinated with figures like da Vinci and Michelangelo from a young age. Finding a copy of one of the Codices of da Vinci in a Barnes & Noble is a formative memory, after which he taught himself to write in mirror writing and began making substitution ciphers just for note taking in class.

          Tyler has made art for as long as he can remember. An early experience with oil painting at a summer class at the VMFA set him on the course he is today. Even the smell of the paint itself is nostalgic. In high school his art teacher gave him a separate drafting table in the corner of the class and let him assign his own projects, so long as he put work into them. Many of those pieces are lost now, left at the school itself, but the experience allowed him to study anatomy, self-portraits, and composition in general. Today he still gravitates towards figurative work, attempting to capture the infinite complexity of the human form and human expression, always up for another challenging portrait.