After an epiphany in the Sonoran Desert revealed a life of glassmaking, Aaron Thane Tate eschewed formal training and rapidly displayed an unusual facility with techniques and with his personal compositions. However, his lack of an established teacher did not cause him to ignore the influences of prominent American glassblowers, but rather welcome them to critique his work.

Throughout his early and then professional years, Tate produced volumes of fashionable decorative art pieces, interior design fixtures, and functional ware. These were created with a notable versatility that would transcend any specific decorating style, and would contribute to his success as a sculptor in solid worked, blown, and cast glass.

Aaron Tate forms his sculptures in recognizable images of humans and animals. His designs include natural subjects, made objects, and landscapes. He has developed a style in which the juxtaposition of images is often beautiful or classic and yet enigmatic. By the use of a repetitive light and dark technique superimposed on the surface color, he is able to affect an atmospheric quality to sculptures already suffused with symbolic purport and historic connections. The return of the overall structure and intricate detail is the viewer's interpretation of the work and to link the art, the artist, and the viewer's self.

Aaron said in part, "Some of my pieces are happy and uplifting and others make one pensive and thoughtful. That is what the artist strives for, a personal response to a sculpture, an object, that evokes something from one's personal experiences in this space-time. It's so...personal - the viewing."