Meet TomTom
An Artist Who Designs, a Designer Who Paints
Thomas Ard — known to nearly everyone simply as TomTom — is an artist and designer whose work is built on a distinctive visual language: bold line, confident form, and a deliberate economy of color. His pieces are unmistakably his own, contemporary in feeling and made to be lived with.
From the start, Thomas has been guided by a simple conviction: that original art shouldn’t stay locked behind gallery glass. It should turn up in the places you actually live — on your walls, your table, your front door. That belief is what turned a painting practice into something bigger.
Through TomTom and Company, he translates his art into a full collection — original paintings, prints, and decorative pieces designed for the home and for gifting. The through-line across everything is the same hand and the same eye: expressive but clean, modern but warm, and always approachable.
His work sits comfortably within a contemporary, accessible tradition where painting and design meet. The goal isn’t to intimidate; it’s to invite. A TomTom piece is meant to bring clarity, character, and a little joy into the room it lives in.
TomTom and Company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and ships nationwide.
