Dr. Tom Mence is a UK based painter, practice-led researcher, and stutterer.

With an interest in using the home, and the stuff we surround ourselves with, as a source to investigate the construction of images and paintings, Tom’s practice-led research also examines the relationship between a painting, the act of painting, and a verbal stutter.

Tom’s aim is to move the perception of dysfluent forms of dialogue away from being understood as conditions needing to be cured (or made fluent), towards them being recognised as - and transformed into - creatively beneficial, studio-based, strategies.

(He is also a dog lover, and lover of painting dogs!)