Tim Smith

Tim Smith’s paintings come from a diverse variety of inspirations and ideas. He once responded to being asked where his paintings came from with a bizarre but engaging list, given immediately without pausing:
Sunrise, Cherry Blossom, Winter trees, the night sky, comets,
Rothko, “L'Atelier au Mimosa” in The Pompidou Centre,
Summer and Winter Solstices, films involving time travel, Thor Ragnarok,
seeing George Best play, the underdog, the Border Collie,
Pegasus, a lunar eclipse, astronomical illustration, Steve Ditko, Miro, Vermeer’s Milkmaid,
accidental spillages of paint, those nights we had in Florence,
Simon Schama’s Landscape and Memory, the daring Utagawa Hiroshige waterfalls
English landscape painting, Arshile Gorky, window views,
the importance of edges, rugs, the stories of young children,
1970s Marvel comics, poetry, the equal love of painterly and hard edged abstraction,
our years in Oxford, The Yorkshire Wolds, The Rijksmuseum, deceptive space, Matisse,
Mythology, A Silver Birch in the sunlight against the dark, Charles Burchfied, camping holidays in Europe,
Tetris, the versatility of paint and the endurance of painting, early mornings in Summer.
Redon. Graphs. The cross amongst the corn. Zeuxis And Parrhasios...

Fine Art BA Hons Reading University
MFA Painting Newcastle University

2023 Ferens Open
2020 A painting in the window - a new work each day in lockdown
2019 Bodleian Library Oxford
2018 Self And Others, Neo Arts, Bolton
2017 Hessle Show
2017 Community Open Wilberforce Hull
2016 watercolours on the move, Denmark
2016 RA Summer Exhibition
2015 Humber to The Wash
2015 Ferens Open
2014 East Riding Open
2014 Pop Open, Hull
2014 Ferens Open
2014 Art Crasher Live San Francisco
2013 Running Watercolours Bergen
2013 Pop Live, St Ives
2012 New Paintings, Apple Gallery Cambridge
2011 Humber To Wash
2010 Ferens Open