ABOUT | timfeasey

Me,1964

Paintings

My paintings are concerned with specific places, people, times or events. Recurrent themes occur through the depiction of interiors and landscapes, captured at emotionally charged or psychologically significant moments. I enjoy exploring our relationship with the commonplace and ethereal, the momentary and monumental. By working each subject through a progressive series of paintings, I aim to present the viewer with a rich visual experience that is both aesthetically and emotionally engaging. The paintings explore the relationships and possibilities presented by combining realism. symbolism and abstraction. I believe this approach offers exciting tensions and harmonies which directly reflect my chosen subject matter.

DRAWINGS

I have enjoyed drawing and teaching drawing over many years. I believe that drawing is fundamental in relation to creative expression. Drawing offers a huge range of applications and possibilities. Through drawing ideas can be physically researched and materialised. Drawing is constantly responding to changes in artistic thinking, materials and practice. I believe drawing offers accessible entry points through which to explore critical and creative decision-making. It is a useful tool which develops observational and artistic skills and heightens creative sensibilities. It can initiate an artistic process or exist as a discrete activity. I see drawing as both a means and an end.

My oil paintings are on board or paper rather than on canvas. The work is produced in series, usually numbering 3, 4, 6, 8, 10 or 12. Each series is dedicated to exploring a specific idea or theme. The scale of the paintings is all the same within each set (unless I'm being naughty). The size between sets varies from very small-scale works measuring just a few centimetres to much larger work.

PRINTS

Too often printmaking is seen as a complementary, and at worst a peripheral activity in an artist’s creative output. I find the various printmaking processes I use absorbing and encompassing. Each technique offers its own attributes and possibilities. Scale and graphic impact are important considerations when choosing which technique to use with a particular image or idea. When I am particularly pleased with a print and choose to make a number of copies, the physical and mental energy required to sustain a repetitive and demanding process throughout the production of a large edition can be really satisfying. It's hard to explain why? Maybe it's the simple joy of manufacturing something, knowing you can produce more than one.