Tim Bradford

I am what is generally known as a new wave pop folk artist. Usually I work by sitting at a desk with my head in my hands staring at the wall for several weeks, before jumping up and doing a painting in a few minutes. After which I kiss it lovingly - though only when it's dry.

My technique is based around putting down various colour layers - with hands, brushes, knives, bits of rag or old gloves - adding new colour quickly and then scratching away wet paint to show the layer below. This is in part an attempt to reveal the perceived mask/veneer of subjects, be they lanscapes, people or memories. It also works on a more sensual level, allowing me to attack my own paintings and crack them open a little bit.

Although I'm now older than John Lennon was when he died, and Dino Zoff was when he collected a World Cup winner's medal, I like to think of myself as an emerging artist. I'm just emerging in slow motion.

University of East Anglia

Dec 2020-Jan 2021
Winter Open (Group exhibition)
The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland.

September-October, 2018
The Beautiful Mundane: Love, Life, Walking and Tangential Reality (Solo exhibition)
The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland.
An exhibition of brightly coloured flower paintings, part of an ongoing series of botanic transcendental paintings.

June 2016
What Goes On In The Mind (Group exhibition) -
Mental Spaghetti/AIMS,
Town Hall Gallery, Oxford

April 2016
Cross-Pollination (Group exhibition)
Mental Spaghetti, Dragon Cafe, London SE1

November 2014
Can You See What I See? (Curated exhibition by The Siott Gallery)
Norden Farm Gallery, Maidenhead

May 2014 - August 2014
The Good Earth (group exhibition)
The Conference Centre Gallery, The Arts Project

December 2013-January 2014
The Reflecting Eye (group exhibition)
The Conference Centre Gallery, The Arts Project

June-July 2013
New Wave Wang-Eyed Pop Folk Art: A Retrospective (solo exhibition)
Stoke Newington Library Gallery, London N16

This exhibition charted my rise from callow rural bumpkin to naive rural bearded bumpkin living in the city. The gallery was divided into seven imaginary rooms, ea...